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Symptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I’m not judging – I’ve had a brush with it myself, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook’s founder famously ‘never tried to be cool’. Is his makeover just a distraction from what’s going on at Meta, asks Arwa Mahdawi
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In 2021, the web felt dead because algorithms were driving people to act like robots. Now, the robots are posting like people
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The writer and podcaster has made a career from dissecting the lore of 2010s memes – many of which she shares here
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The effectiveness of Tinder and Hinge are hard to judge without access to their data. But now researchers are creating a free alternative with full transparency
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Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism
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In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?
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The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy
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EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporary
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It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games
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Snap’s share surged 21% in after-hours trading as app’s users increased by 422 million, bringing in $1.2bn in revenue
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Shares surge after tech giant issues first ever dividend and posts revenue of $80.5bn, up 15% since last year, despite staff turmoil
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Elon Musk’s X says it opposes demands from Australia’s eSafety commissioner that it remove the content globally
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Strict rules have led to a wild west of rentals, with visitors choosing between huge hotel bills or word-of-mouth deals
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In this week’s newsletter: TV journalist Scott Bryan looks back at the making of I Wanna Marry “Harry” – and the dubious ethics behind the show. Plus: five of the best podcasts hosted by pop stars
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Tired of colonial artefacts being hoarded, Chidi Nwaubani and Ahmed Abokor use tech to redistribute them from museums in audacious digital heists
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Service suspended in France and Spain amid safety and addiction concerns among children, in first use of new digital laws
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The head of the company’s gaming subscription service explains its priorities as it anticipates the Vision Pro revolution, and tries to bring originality to a market still dominated by free to play mobile titles
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While Apple removed the platform from App Stores without a squeak of public protest, its battle with the EU rages on. Plus, how a ban in the US could change TikTok everywhere
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AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package