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July 2024

  • Coco Khan

    What is it about weather apps that has us all – including Queen Camilla – so obsessed?

    Coco Khan
  • A man in a suit holds a green and white umbrella while looking down at his phone

    ‘I find them quite magical’: the UK’s obsession with weather apps

  • A woman shelters from the rain using her book surrounded by people with umbrellas

    Should I bring a brolly? Five of the best weather apps

  • A man looks at his mobile device running the iOS Apple weather app

    Figma’s AI app creator accused of ripping off Apple weather app

June 2024

  • Anya Ryan

    Why I quit
    Dating apps took over my life – so I ditched them and learned to live in the moment

    Anya Ryan
    I used to remove myself from experiences in favour of chasing matches. Now I’m fulfilled by the company of real people, says freelance writer Anya Ryan
  • ‘We offer escapism, we offer fantasy. It is a place to go when the things happening around you are not as enjoyable,’ said Kate Fahlsing, director of creative strategy at Chapters.

    As spicy as you want it: interactive fiction games put forward a new kind of narrative

    Once derided for saucy advertisements and romance novel plots, these mobile games are venturing into the mainstream
  • ‘Our first time’ … Gemma New will conduct the world premiere of City of Floating Sounds.

    In the key of 5G: the ‘dimensionalist’ who wrote a symphony for 1,000 phones

    Mobiles are usually hated at concert halls. But Huang Ruo wants Mancunians to start using theirs on the way in – and not stop. The Chinese-American explains why the sounds of rain and traffic are all part of the experience

May 2024

  • Stephen Merchant doing a high kick and looking into the camera

    Weekend
    Stephen Merchant on his ‘preposterous’ trajectory; the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app; and when does drinking become a problem? – podcast

  • Illustration by Observer Design of a woman and the Zoe nutrition app.

    ‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app

  • Author Andrew O'Hagan<br>Scotish Author Andrew O'Hagan, at his home in London. His most recent book 'Mayflies' is about a friend of his from his youth and the hedonistic times they had. He is also Editor at Large of the London Review of Books and Esquire Magazine. Date: 11 August 2020 Photograph by Amit Lennon. **RE-TOUCHED High Res. Use This!

    On my radar
    On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

  • Download window for the Bumble app is shown on an Apple iPhone, with graphic depicting three stages of the dating experience including photo of a smiling woman

    ‘A lot of effort to get one date’: Bumble app makes women’s first move easier

April 2024

  • Headteachers say they are forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after losing caretakers to cuts.

    Brief letters
    Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

  • Elle Hunt

    Outside London, the dating pool may be smaller – but there are fewer sharks

    Elle Hunt
  • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

    ‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

  • Social media app icons on a phone screen

    Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from Chinese App Store

  • ‘We may lose ability to think critically at all’: the book-summary apps accused of damaging authors’ sales

  • Tories planned to make millions from members’ data with ‘True Blue’ app

  • Smartphone app could help detect early-onset dementia cause, study finds

March 2024

  • A woman wearing augmented-reality goggles, touching the 'screen' at the foreground of the image

    Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?

  • Apple and Fortnite

    Apple’s claims about risk of outside payments ‘do not survive scrutiny’, Epic Games tells Australian court

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