The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are advising visitors to their Archewell website to take regular screen breaks. How does this approach line up with the evidence?Name: Screen time.Age: It’s less about how old, more about how long. Continue reading…
Facebook pauses work on Instagram Kids after teen mental health concerns
Move follows WSJ revelations that Facebook-commissioned research showed Instagram could affect girls’ mental healthFacebook has halted work on its Instagram Kids project after revelations about the photo-sharing app’s impact on teen mental health.Insta…
Scam ‘epidemic’: Big tech firms must join fight, says Nationwide chief
Building society launches pre-payment hotline after bank-transfer scams rise sharply during pandemicTechnology, telecoms and social media companies should take more responsibility for stopping scams as the problem reaches “epidemic proportions”, the UK…
Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Largest major survey of its kind finds 70% of respondents first saw child sexual abuse material when they were under 18The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly …
UK jobseekers are offered six months of free broadband
Joint TalkTalk and government scheme to tackle digital exclusion gives no-contract uncapped usagePeople looking for work can now apply for six months of free broadband to help them search for jobs.A national programme has been launched by the telecoms …
A happy baby on a train: Dina Alfasi’s best phone picture
‘That the young girl in the foreground was a soldier with a gun on her knee is an integral part of that moment’Dina Alfasi has often said that her favourite place to shoot is on the train. It’s not only a mobile studio with, as she puts it, great natur…
Meng Wanzhou flies back to China after deal with US prosecutors
Meng boarded a flight to Shenzhen, returning to China for the first time since her arrest in Vancouver in 2018Chinese telecoms executive Meng Wanzhou was freed after three years of house arrest in Canada, following an agreement with the US justice depa…
Experience: our house was moved to a different town
We lived in our dream home. Then suddenly a huge chasm split our town. Rather than buy a new home for the move, we decided to transplant the houseI moved to Malmberget – a town in the far north of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle – from a nearby village…
Apple iPad 2021 review: still the best tablet for most people
Faster chip, more storage and huge video call camera upgrade keep Apple’s cheapest tablet in frontApple’s updated low-end iPad looks set to continue its dominance of the market with newer chips, twice the storage and a brilliant new video-calling camer…
El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender is pure folly
Cryptocurrencies are a baffling entity but adopting it as legal tender is the strangest, most worrying aspect of allEl Salvador this month became the first country to adopt a cryptocurrency – in this case, bitcoin – as legal tender. I say the first, be…