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I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

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Physical phone blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the testWake up, 100 messages from group chat overnight about something – what? another assassination attempt; a village destroyed in Lebanon; the football result in England; the weather in Iran being manipulated; the pesticides […]

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The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin

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Other commenters helped me diagnose the problem. When I couldn’t afford the solution, someone I knew only by his handle offered to payRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesAs a pensioner, money is always tight, so I was distraught when the secondhand car I’d recently bought began overheating. I took it to three or

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When your culture becomes a meme: the ‘jarring’ effect of Chinamaxxing

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The TikTok trend may be fading, but people of Chinese heritage wonder if an appreciation for their culture will continue after the algorithm moves onI have been Chinese my whole life. Lately, many online have also found their Chinese roots, but not through traditional ancestry tests.Creators are drinking hot water, wearing slippers around the house,

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‘Cruel hoax’ or ‘work-life balance nirvana’: whatever happened to the four-day work week?

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It has been years since the four-day work week was floated as a solution to everything from traffic congestion to burnout. So why aren’t we all doing it now?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDuring the global soul-searching that followed the rupture of Covid-19 lockdowns, one idea for how we might live better suddenly seemed

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With the advance of AI, I feel my work as an artist is no longer respected. Should I just give up? | Leading questions

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Think back to the reason you started making art, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes, then separate this from the money or acclaimRead more Leading questionsI’m an artist in my 30s without any major success. Before the pandemic I had quite a lot of opportunities. Unfortunately Covid and then political and personal matters beyond my control

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Is it smarter to have a dumb home? ‘We’ve seen clients unable to flush toilets’

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Australia experienced a boom in smart-home technology at the start of the 2020s. Years on, some early adopters are experiencing buyer’s remorseGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen the smart home devices Elly Bailey was expecting in the post never showed up at her Gold Coast home, she was frustrated. As a technology reviewer, these

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Write a card, read a poem, take fewer photos: how to feel more human in 2026

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While ‘touch grass’ has become a popular prescription for a less digital life, choosing social friction over efficiency can also feel curative At the turn of the millennium daily life looked very different. The modern internet was just a decade old, mobile phones were far from universal and our social lives were mostly physical –

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My work went from air-conditioned offices to delivering food on a bike. The culture shock is significant | David Rayfield

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The plan was to get on a bicycle to earn some money. It wasn’t to get hit by cars, thumped by skinheads or to see my surroundings in a whole new lightGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAt first I didn’t realise I’d been punched. I’m not sure why my brain assumed a bird had

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