Can a long road trip work with children? I set out to relive a classic journey from Bilbao to Saint-Malo I did in my freewheeling 20s
The moment came on about day four. A cloud-like mist was drenching…
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So dumb it just might work: can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones? ⊖
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As part of a growing anti-tech movement, startup dumb.co is pushing flip phones as a way for young people to find ‘social and spiritual freedom’
“They aren’t as dumb as they look,” our facilitator sai…
44 days ago
I have an amazing holiday to look forward to – and all I can think about is how I’ll mess it up | Emma Beddington ⊖
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The internet was supposed to make travel easier. But the more I research my destination, the more I worry about visiting the wrong bits of it
In the 1980s, a friend of my father navigated through Euro…
80 days ago
‘Visible from space’: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses ⊕
Andalusia houses ‘Europe’s vegetable garden’ – a laboratory of development and innovation producing vegetables for all of Europe
Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia, southern Spain. It is so vas…
82 days ago
I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me ⊖⊖
Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role
Five firms including Autotrader and Just Eat investigated over fake review failings
The ho…
89 days ago
How Google Maps is shaping where we eat – video ○
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Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that …
3 months ago
He shoots, he scores! Basketball as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures ⊕
In 2019, Austin Bell embarked on a wild quest to photograph all 2,549 of Hong Kong’s outdoor basketball courts using drone cameras and Google Maps. The results offer a fresh perspective on the city
C…The one change that worked: I stopped planning holidays – and found the joy in travel ⊕⊕
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I used to scroll through scores of online reviews to put together a trip itinerary before I’d even left home. Now I just let my feet – and my nose – guide me wherever I go
I have always been indecisi…
Mysterious triangle seen in Nevada desert on Google Maps sparks theories of lost civilization ⊖
A baffling triangular formation deep in the Nevada desert is igniting theories that it could be the handiwork of a forgotten ancient civilization.
7 months ago
Borderline ambiguity: How Google Maps removes disputed Western Sahara border for Morocco users ⊖
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The tech giant has released a statement acknowledging the use of different border displays between Western Sahara and Morocco
The dotted lines illustrating the border between Western Sahara and Morocc…