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Ofcom has named four ways to prove you are over 16 — and refused to make any of them compulsory
The regulator says being prescriptive is what failed elsewhere. It also concedes that some children will get round the checks whatever…
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“Maxxing” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year, and “data centre” was on the shortlist it beat
A suffix that attaches to anything, chosen by a dictionary measuring social media. The runners-up say more about 2026 than the winner does.
Health
“Ferritin face” has millions of views, and doctors say you cannot read iron levels off a photograph
The trend is wrong about the method and right that iron deficiency is under-diagnosed. Separating those two is the whole job, because…
World
Gabon has switched social media back on after eight months, in a country where blackouts were the old government’s habit
Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are reachable again for 2.5 million people. The eight months in between are a short lesson in what…
World
She is 96, has 15 million followers, and pays a $12,000 monthly nursing home bill with brand deals
A cohort of women in their seventies, eighties and nineties have turned late-life social media into a business. The interesting part is why…
Technology
He is 22, he cuts other people's videos into clips, and he says it pays him £120,000 a year. Almost nobody else makes anything
Eknoor Singh, 22, says he makes at least £10,000 a month cutting clients' videos into vertical clips, at up to $3 per 1,000 views. A…
Technology
4,000 Bradford teenagers are cutting their social media use for six weeks, and the result will shape a national ban
The IRL trial gives some students an app that limits social media and leaves others unrestricted, then compares anxiety, sleep, body image…
World
Fans are training their algorithms to hide their favourite artists so a concert can still surprise them
Films get spoiler warnings; tours do not. One fan spends weeks tapping “not interested” on videos of artists she loves. Another says she…
World
Rescues of 18 to 24-year-olds in the mountains nearly doubled in five years. Volunteers call the pressure unsustainable
Mountain Rescue England and Wales recorded 314 incidents involving 18 to 24-year-olds in 2024, up 89 per cent from 2019. Llanberis is on…
Health
A medical treatment for swollen limbs has become a TikTok routine for a “snatched waist”. Doctors explain what it actually does
Manual lymphatic drainage is a real treatment for lymphoedema, usually after cancer or lymph node surgery. A researcher warns…
Technology
He has ten years and a loyal following. One video brought tens of thousands of comments too vile to repeat
Mitchell Halliday created a red carpet look for Katie Price. What arrived was not criticism of his work — most of the cruelty was aimed at…
Health
People are paying salons to make their nails look untouched. Critics say that is the point
A London salon owner describes customers who want the full treatment and no polish. The trend is read as quiet luxury — and as a status…