Locked Out of ‘God Mode,’ Runners Are Hacking Their Treadmills

NordicTrack customers were watching Netflix using a simple trick—until the company blocked their access. | Continue reading


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Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed

The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different? | Continue reading


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Next Cup of Coffee Could Be Grown in a Lab

Climate change is putting coffee production under pressure. Lab-grown coffee offers an alternative. | Continue reading


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How do you deradicalise an incel? Academics question their approach to extremism

Pulling disaffected young men back from the brink is complicated, and it’s making academics question their whole approach to extremism | Continue reading


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Parents are building open source alternatives to school/kindergarden apps

We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered. | Continue reading


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Parents built their own school app, ignoring warnings that it might be illegal

Stockholm’s official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal. | Continue reading


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Companies are already living in Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

The Meta dream envisages whole companies operating in a virtual world. Many made the switch years ago—with mixed results. | Continue reading


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Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die from Climate Change

Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change we must move past doomsday scenarios. | Continue reading


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Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data

More and more people are collecting vintage computers. And they’re getting more than they bargained for | Continue reading


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The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are impossible to ignore

Google claims the Pixel 6 is its first true flagship Pixel, taking on Samsung and Apple. Great price, great specs and great fun make it a compelling package | Continue reading


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Concrete can eat carbon emissions

Concrete is responsible for more than four percent of all global CO2 emissions. In the race to find alternatives, some companies are using it to sequester CO2 instead | Continue reading


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The unsolved mystery of the Putney Pusher

In May 2017 a runner pushed a woman in front of a London bus. Despite the city’s vast CCTV network – and the close attentions of internet sleuths – the case remains unsolved | Continue reading


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Apple Is Normalising Surveillance

Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us | Continue reading


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Worldcoin: A Cryptocurrency for Everyone on the Planet

Worldcoin wants to get one billion people into its new cryptocurrency by the end of 2022 – with a little help from iris-scanning Orbs | Continue reading


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The horse, the drone and the epic fight for gambling success

In the world of in-running sports betting, fractions of a second can equal big money | Continue reading


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The race to grab all the UK’s lithium before it’s too late

Two companies are convinced that the historical mining region of Cornwall holds a bounty of lithium, but first they need to get to it | Continue reading


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Spotify Is Breaking Podcasts

Podcasts continue to operate outside the platform-dominated internet. Spotify’s ambitions are changing that, for better or worse | Continue reading


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We need to talk about how Apple is normalising surveillance

Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us | Continue reading


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The real reason it's impossible to hire anyone

Workers quit in droves during the Great Resignation of 2021. But companies desperate for hires are finding their job adverts are still ignored | Continue reading


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'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' – Story of Oppenheimer's quote

The Robert Oppenheimer line, from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad-Gita, has come to define the father of the atomic bomb, but its meaning is more complex than many realise | Continue reading


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Scotland’s four-day week trial is fatally flawed

Scotland’s government is trialling a groundbreaking four-day working week, but it’s powerless to make widespread change happen | Continue reading


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How Valencia Crushed Covid with AI

By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer | Continue reading


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They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s

Hundreds of young people are displaying strikingly similar tic-like behaviours. But is it Tourette’s, or something more mysterious? | Continue reading


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The UK thinks it can fix GDPR. It’s wrong

The UK managed to get a data adequacy agreement with the EU. But its planned changes for GDPR could rip this apart | Continue reading


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Britain tamed Big Tech and nobody noticed

The Age Appropriate Design Code – now the Children’s Code – has caused huge global changes. Not that tech platforms want to admit it | Continue reading


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PGP Is Dead

The Efail vulnerability punches a hole in the encrypted PGP protocols. For the best secure messaging, you should turn to the Signal app | Continue reading


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The Great Resignation is here and no one is prepared

Around the world, workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers – and bosses are still scrambling to figure out how to keep them | Continue reading


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To catch a paedophile, you only need to look at their hands

When a paedophile or rapist films their crime, professor Sue Black can track them down using nothing more than the veins, scars and other markings on their hands | Continue reading


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Zoom dysmorphia is following us into the real world

Eighteen months of using front-facing cameras has distorted our self-image – and a new study reveals that the effects aren't going away easily | Continue reading


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William Heath Robinson museum finally opens this weekend. Who is the man behind

Heath Robinson's name has been used to describe absurdly complex, makeshift contraptions since the early 20th century. Despite this, the man behind the name is largely unknown. WIRED investigates | Continue reading


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China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world

The digital yuan was born as China’s answer to Facebook's Libra. But it’s much more than that | Continue reading


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Is your name ruining your life?

Name discrimination is alive and well in 2021 – and I can’t help but wonder what impact it’s had on my life | Continue reading


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How many people have long Covid?

Pinning down the true number of people suffering from long Covid is an important task. It’s also proving impossible | Continue reading


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Afghans are racing to erase their online lives

Every photo and every data point is a link to the old way of life in Afghanistan – and a reason for Taliban retribution | Continue reading


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The truth behind the biggest (and dumbest) battery myths

Yes, keeping your phone on charge overnight is bad news for its battery. And no, you don’t need to turn off your device to give the battery a break. Here’s why | Continue reading


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The match that will change FIFA forever UK

For FIFA 22, EA Sports motion-captured a 90-minute contest between two Spanish sides. Its echoes will be felt by millions of gamers | Continue reading


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Aphantasia: People Without a Mind's Eye – 'Out of Mind'

If you close your eyes and picture an apple, how clear is that apple in your mind?Most people can visualise images in their head instantaneously - this known as the mind's eye.But in 2015, a scientific study shed new light on the relatively unheard-of phenomenon known as aphantas … | Continue reading


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EVs are changing the future of roadside breakdown UK

You can’t tow an electric car when it’s run out of charge, so what do you do? | Continue reading


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The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business | Continue reading


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The NHS App has quietly become a vaccine passport

More than ten million of us have downloaded it, despite the government saying vaccine passports aren’t a thing. What gives? | Continue reading


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If chimps and toddlers can call you a poo face, it's a given AIs will too

Almost as soon as we learn to talk, we learn to swear, says Emma Byrne, author of Swearing is Good for You | Continue reading


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DeepMind’s AI has finally shown how useful it can be

AlphaFold has provided the clearest picture yet of the human proteome. Now DeepMind is making its work available to the world | Continue reading


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Day to Go into the Office Is

It’s not Monday. Or Tuesday. Or Wednesday. In fact, the very idea of a ‘best’ day to go into the office is misguided | Continue reading


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Time travel movies of all time

Filmmakers love time travel. Thankfully we do too | Continue reading


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How the internet censorship world turned on NetBlocks

NetBlocks has become a crucial source of truth in the era of internet shutdowns. But many are now questioning its methods | Continue reading


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Why would anyone want a 16-inch iPad?

With the 12.9in iPad Pro already at the very edge of being manageable, the rumoured supersize iPad Pro Max makes no sense at all | Continue reading


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Europe’s plan to crush China’s battery power

With a gigafactory under construction and new R&D deals signed, Northvolt could help Europe gain an edge, and create the battery of the future | Continue reading


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