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‘I was so lonely I ended up talking to ChatGPT eight times a day’
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (1204+ words) Paisley's mind always felt clearest when he was alone in his car. With no distractions, it became his makeshift sanctuary, and a space where, about a year ago, he started turning to ChatGPT for advice and comfort. "I didn't know…...
Athlete's phone snatched by thieves in London but she sprints to get it back
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (536+ words) It's not everyday that a phone snatcher meets their match. But one runner managed to do just that after sprinting after the thief who stole her phone. Elizabeth Lopez Aguilar, 24, was filming a TikTok while on holiday in London when…...
The ‘disgusting’ TikTok trend battling phone addiction
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1046+ words) There's a slight irony when TikTokkers post about ways to put your phone down " but that's where we currently find ourselves, thanks to the increasingly popular "disgustingly educated' trend." For those not in the know (where have you been?), being…...
I got on top of my screentime addiction with this nostalgic phone hack
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (1115+ words) I'm 28, and my phone has formed an intrinsic part of my life. When I was little, I loved playing Snake on my mum's Nokia. As a teenager, I distinctly remember being bought my first BlackBerry for Christmas. I'd stay up…...
This app lets you tell your friends or family if you're dead
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (680+ words) If you've ever wanted an easy way to let your family know that you are, in fact, alive, there's an app for that. "Are You Dead?', otherwise called Si Le Ma?, is a Chinese mobile phone app that costs 99p in…...
Hacker deletes 'Tinder for Nazis' and leaks thousands of profiles online
2+ week, 1+ day ago (419+ words) The profiles of thousands of people who joined a white supremacist dating site have been leaked online after it was hacked. An anonymous hacker broke into WhiteDate and deleted it " but not before downloading the 100 gigabytes of data behind it....
You might finally be able to change your embarrassing old email address
2+ week, 1+ day ago (303+ words) It's over 20 years since Gmail launched, so if you signed up early, there's a good chance you might be a bit sick of your email address by now. Whether it's a cringy reference like @[email protected], or you simply got married…...
Free streaming service that's 'better than Netflix' and has 80,000,000 users
2+ week, 4+ day ago (974+ words) You may have already heard of Tubi " it's one of the most popular free streaming services, which boasts 97 million users per month. But you might be less familiar with Pluto TV. Pluto TV is what's known as a free ad-supported…...
Top AI slop YouTube channels generate £90,000,000 every year from brainrot
3+ week, 2+ day ago (673+ words) Brainrot YouTube videos have raked in more than 63,000,000,000 views, generating about "90,000,000 in revenue every year. The low quality AI content " designed to farm views " could make up more than 20 per cent of YouTube's feed, according to a new report by…...
'I travelled the world as a digital nomad - it's a miserable lie'
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1582+ words) Tom Slater was staying in a hut on the dreamy white sands of a beach in Ko Pha Ngan Thailand with no plans for the day, no responsibilities and no commitments. He had friends around him and the sun was…...