And why switching is easier than you think. WhatsApp was once considered the most private messaging platform. The messaging app was one of the first to implement end-to-end encryption in 2016. This means neither Facebook nor your internet service provider has access to the content of your messages. New terms…

And what it taught me about the UK’s failed response to coronavirus “So, you don’t even wear masks” I say to my sister. “No,” she says. “I do still see some people wearing them in the supermarket but otherwise we never do. There’s just no need.” Apart from the occasional…

Could this new vision for city-life become the new normal? The mayor of Paris recently announced something radical: A promise to remove over half the city’s parking spaces. In other cities across the world this would have make her a very unpopular politician. In Paris it’s a promise that won…

A year on, Google Stadia is paving the way for game streaming. Imagine a video game console with no loading times. A console which lets you play brand-new AAA games as soon as you’ve clicked the ‘buy’ button. A console that you can play from anywhere, on any device. No…

… but the issue raises larger concerns about our relationship with technology — If you own a Google Home, you may have caught yourself in a world of worry yesterday, when you read a headline that proclaims “GOOG-HELL Google ‘eavesdropping on your PRIVATE conversations’ with Android phones and smart speakers”. Underneath the alarming headline from Britain’s most popular tabloid, The Sun, begins the…

Hyperlocal newspapers are spreading across the UK. Can they stop the slow demise of local news? — “When I first moved to Brixton in 1975, the was a must read. If it wasn’t in the South London Press, it didn’t happen.” …

Inspired by the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, I spent my new year decluttering my life. I threw out half of my wardrobe, and spent hours neatly folding only those which “spark joy”. I wasn’t alone in this. Thousands in the UK spent the first month of the…

Amazon.com. Everyone’s favourite “everything store” has a problem. The platform is ripe with scams. Don’t get me wrong, I love Amazon and I use it regularly. It almost always has the best price, and the delivery times are incredible. However, as the platform has grown and become more popular, it’s…

Apple, Google and Facebook present themselves as principled, but their actions say otherwise. China opened up to free trade and capitalism in the 1980s, but resisted the tide of freedom and democracies that many expected to come with it. Today, the country is ruled by an authoritarian one-party system. In…