Facebook ‘operates in shadows’ – and Instagram is worse than other social sites, whistleblower tells Congress
Facebook’s products “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy”, a whistleblower has claimed. Frances Haugen – who used to work as a product manager at the…
Conservative Party conference: Boris Johnson to launch attack on former Tory PMs in promise to tackle big issues
Boris Johnson will close his party’s conference in a rousing finale in which he will accuse his Tory predecessors of “drift and dither” and lacking the guts…
Intimate data: can a person who tracks their steps, sleep and food ever truly be free?
First we counted our steps, then our heartbeats, blood pressure and respiratory rates. We monitored our sleep, workouts, periods and fertility windows. But there is plenty left…
Jeremy O Harris pulls Slave Play from LA theater over its male-dominated season
The playwright Jeremy O Harris has pulled his popular work Slave Play from a forthcoming run in Los Angeles over the theater group’s lack of representation of…
Carrie Johnson urges Tories to back transgender rights
Carrie Johnson has urged Conservatives to fight for the rights of transgender people, throwing her support behind a cause that has begun to increasingly divide the party….
Football Australia to investigate after Matildas great Lisa De Vanna makes allegations of abuse
Football Australia has urged players to come forward and make formal complaints after historical allegations of abuse were made by Matildas great Lisa De Vanna. De Vanna,…
Women’s golf major gains sponsor and bigger purse amid venue uncertainty
News of a welcome and substantial boost in prize money for the first women’s major of the golfing year has arrived with the not inconsequential footnote of…
Barcelona pay homage to Cruyff by teaching Arsenal harsh WCL lesson
Barcelona ripped Arsenal apart in style to kickstart their Champions League defence. Goals from Mariona Caldentey, Alexia Putellas – the newly crowned European player of the year,…
Americans are desperate to visit Hawaii – but apparently not enough to get vaccinated
If you’re an unvaccinated American headed to Hawaii, and you want to avoid quarantine, you’ll need to provide the state with a negative Covid test. Alternatively, you…
Breakfast at Tiffany’s at 60: the sharp romcom that grows darker with age
Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a sacred film in my household growing up. My mother’s VHS tape, fuzzily recorded off TV, was plastered in “do not tape over”…
‘Genius dogs’ can learn names of more than 100 toys, study finds
Your dog might follow commands such as “sit”, or become uncontrollably excited at the mention of the word “walkies”, but when it comes to remembering the names…
Boris Johnson to brush off petrol queues as ‘change of direction’
Boris Johnson will brush off petrol queues and empty shelves as evidence of a “change of direction” towards a high-wage economy on Wednesday, as he closes a…
France threatens to cut UK and Jersey energy supply in fishing row
The EU could hit Britain and Jersey’s energy supply over the UK’s failure to provide sufficient fishing licences to French fishers, France’s EU affairs minister has said….
Pygmy pipehorse discovered in New Zealand given Māori name in ‘world first’
A tiny candy-stick coloured pygmy pipehorse, discovered in a small area off New Zealand’s north coast has been given a Māori name by the local iwi (tribe)…