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The fear economy: How women’s safety became big business
A growing industry is promising to make Britain’s streets safer – but critics warn selling security risks letting the real culprits off the hook Picture the scene. A woman is walking home at night, steps quickening as she nervously glances…
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How can an algorithm help you make friends?
The digital world offers countless solutions to life’s endless problems, but can it also help cure a shabby social life, one of the very problems it stands accused of creating? Finding your algorithmically-assigned group at a PLY (People Like You)…
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VAR was supposed to save football, now fans are furious
Baseball’s automated referee system is a hit across the Atlantic – but Premier League fans would rather live with bad decisions than kill the game they love When Liverpool forward Luis Díaz slipped between two Tottenham Hotspur defenders and fired…
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Brits pulling the plug on the growth of AI
Grassroots movements are asking whether the UK is sleepwalking into an AI crisis – and whether anyone in power is prepared to stop it On a damp afternoon in King’s Cross in 2023, five people gathered outside the London headquarters…
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How to detox your brain in a digital-first world
Beating online addiction is harder than ever — but not all hope is lost It is late at night after a long day of work and you are ready for a well-deserved night of sleep. But here you are, still…
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Inside the group fighting big tech waste
As technology’s toll on the environment soars, people from all walks of life are working together to build something better When sitting around a table with your friends, is the difference between Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and AI-generated images of sailboats…
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BT mobile relaunch mired in confusion
BT broadband customers being offered new mobile packages with the relaunch of BT Mobile may be turned off by the lack of pay-as-go services and monthly-pay handset contracts, analysts have warned.
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How a phishing surge is exposing South Asia’s hidden cybersecurity gaps
From Sri Lanka’s hijacked debt payments to India’s two million cyber incidents, South Asia is battling a new wave of phishing attacks. And the criminals behind them are often victims themselves. A rise in phishing attacks across South Asia has…
