Category: The Gaurdian

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a whole There was a time, a few decades ago, when ...

I felt a duty to write about the Tang dynasty and its incredible social and cultural sophistication – but also to connect my Chinese past with my child During the Tang dynasty, which lasted from the seventh to the early 10th century, Vikings were raiding the coasts of what today ...

Nearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production After its 2017 premiere off-Broadway, School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play transferred to Los Angeles, was remounted in New York the following year, and ...

The need for independent regulation grows more obvious by the day. We must keep this tech in check before it’s too late Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me more than 16,000 times – as OpenAI agents did to a UN public data ...

Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their “sandbox”, sneaking on to the internet, recruiting ...

There may be almost no research on pet aversion during and post-pregnancy, but it may not be particularly rare About three weeks into her first pregnancy, Sylvia Luu began to loathe the smell of her border collie mix, Ranger. Luu could hardly be in the same room as Ranger without ...

Bread experts weigh in on whether the rye sourdough that bakers ‘feed every day’ is worth that much A loaf of bread has become New York City’s latest viral hit and, somehow, status symbol. At Rye, the first US outpost of Austrian bakery Martin Auer, a 3.3lb loaf of 100% ...

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to the films they watch when they need a lift is an appreciation of Jim Carrey’s manic 90s comedy To be completely honest, whenever anybody asks what my favorite movies are, my list has some typical standbys: Goodfellas and It’s a ...

With zany twists and lovable new faces, reboot of the Black sitcom is a worthy sequel to the trailblazing 1980s original It’s often the case that nothing disappoints like a sitcom reboot. The Malcolm in the Middle revival is missing Dewey. The updated Saved By the Bell felt like detention ...

Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixed Investigators may be some way from determining exactly what led five men with three vans to a village just outside RAF Fairford in the small hours of Sunday – but ...