The competitors at the GeoGuessr World Cup can do just that. The clues are in brick houses, distinctive trousers and unusual telegraph poles Picture a specific image from Google Street View. You’re going to try to guess exactly where in the world the photo was taken. The cloudless sky and desert landscape indicate somewhere hot. The grey road stretches far ahead of you with few defining characteristics. There are telegraph wires to the left of the road, above some short trees. You can zoom into the photo. You can pan around. You can’t, however, zoom out for added context. Can you guess? Oh...

I hoped the cat-herding for a family gaming night would be worth it to enjoy one of the most soothing games ever. But the bricks did not line upMy whole family is under one roof again, after my son Charlie’s flirtation with university was halted by a combination of shady landlord and disappointing levels of partying. As a responsible parent, I should have persuaded him to stay, but 3,000 miles was a hell of a distance to be from the one member of the family who both a) can legally drink and b) wants to go drinking with me. I designate our first Saturday night together a Family Game Night.“...

Limited Run Games; PC, PS4/5, Switch, XboxThe cult retro label has curated and updated a series of digital dino fossils for modern players and fans of the movie franchise who missed out first time roundFor a period during the mid-1990s, it was ruled that no blockbuster movie was really complete until it had also been translated into a rock hard platformer or run-and-gun arcade adventure, seemingly designed to enrage and frustrate children everywhere. Disney’s wildly uncompromising Aladdin and Lion King tie-ins were shining examples as were Probe Software’s challenging Robocop 3 and Alien 3...

TikTokers are sharing strangers’ conversations, hoping to expose gossipers to the very people they’re talking about. Is the humiliation worth it?Marissa Meizz was out to dinner with a friend when her phone started vibrating. It was an unusually frenzied buzz, unresponsive to the silence button – a flood of texts from friends, acquaintances and even an “offline” aunt all linking to a TikTok video titled “Send this to Marissa in NYC”.She froze. Then she started watching. Continue reading...

Sharing videos is a love language for the presenter and author. Here, she shows us a dancing frog and multiple mischievous childrenGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOne of my first memories of the internet was as a horny 13-year-old sitting in my best friend’s bedroom. We were using her family computer to search for pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio. After we ogled some Romeo & Juliet film stills, we decided to look up something more risque. We typed in “naked man” and nervously clicked through to the first site. A rectangle took up the entire screen, and – slower than the most...

Readers find themes that align with their values as they seek to ‘grow empathy’ for a religion long vilified in the westMegan B Rice loves reading. She started a romance novel club on the instant messaging platform Discord and posts book reviews on TikTok. Last month Rice, who is 34 and lives in Chicago, used her social media accounts to speak out about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.“I wanted to talk about the faith of Palestinian people, how it’s so strong, and they still find room to make it a priority to thank God, even when they have everything taken away from them,” she said in...

Another space launch failed, but it’s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoonIt has been an explosive weekend for Elon Musk. The American billionaire has had to witness not only the public “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of another of his rockets, but also watch while a group of well-known global companies, including Apple, Disney and IBM, pulled advertising from X, his social media platform.The businesses, all of them household names, made the decision to stop spending on the site, formerly known as Twitter, after the American billionaire’s public support for an...

Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty InternationalIn the occupied Palestinian territories, there are cameras everywhere. In Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, residents say cameras were installed by Israeli police up and down their streets, peering into their homes. One resident named Sara said she and her family “could be detected as if the cameras were just in our house … we couldn’t feel at home in our own house and had to be fully dressed all the time.”Surveillance cameras now cover the Damascus Gate, the main...

The idea, according to TikTok, is to set wild expectations for yourself – and convince your mind to believe in themIn the 1950s, Norman Vincent Peale called it “positive thinking”. In the noughties, Oprah promoted it through her talkshow as “manifesting”. Just six or so months ago, TikTok dubbed it “lucky girl syndrome”.The belief that “if you think it, it will come” has long been popular among the young and hopeful. Now it has another name: delulu – as in delusional. Continue reading...

Who’s never off The Crown group chat? Who sings whole songs in the Game of Thrones one? And who dropped a bombshell on the Bridgerton bunch? TV talent tell all about their WhatsApp groupsBehind every big TV series there is now a buzzing WhatsApp group. From spitballing ideas for great plotlines to arranging sweepstakes, and those dramatic “has left the chat” notifications, the action-packed groups used by people in television shows are constantly ablaze.“If you put nine show-offs in a group, it becomes lively pretty quickly,” laughs Ghosts co-creator Larry Rickard – who plays...

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