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Controversial Pegasus spyware faces its day of reckoning | John Naughton

The infamous hacking tool is now at the centre of international lawsuits thanks to a courageous research lab

Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting is ‘close to death’, family say

Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, 38, was arrested and jailed after reporting on the outbreakSee all our coronavirus coverageA citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China’s initial response to Covid in Wuhan is close to death after going on hunger strike, her family said, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for her immediate release.

Where would I be without my group chat? In praise of my WhatsApp group | Sophie Brickman

Our group is named, perhaps wistfully, for the reasonably priced bottle of Italian red table wine we used to drink together in our 20s

‘Stop patronising me and give me an interview’: the female journalists speaking up for India’s poor

India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energy

The Earth Is Blue As an Orange review – subtle doc tells Ukrainian family’s war story

Iryna Tsilyk sensitively captures a family caught up in the conflict with Russia who are trying to make a film of their own

Don’t Look Back review – smartphone morality shocker fails to connect

The undoing of a group of ‘bad Samaritans’ has none of the ghoulish fun you might expect from the maker of Final Destination

Selfies, Surgeries And Self-Loathing: Inside The Facetune Epidemic

Sky Lane scrolled through the pictures from an impromptuphoto shoot she’d done with her friend and picked her favourite.

Films shot on smartphones herald new age for cinema, say directors

London’s first international festival for movies made on mobiles will celebrate innovation, diversity and access

How To Talk To Someone Who Won't Put Their Phone Down

Ever been out to eat with a friend who seems more engaged with TikTok videos or texts than you or their meal? You’ve been phubbed!

Race To Replace Len McCluskey Starts As Unite Triggers General Secretary Election

The race to replace Len McCluskey as the head of the Unite union has formally begun with both left-wing and centrist candidates declaring it’s time for “change”.

The Daily Show's Trevor Noah explains 'vaccine passports,' explores why Fox News hates them so much

"As more and more people get vaccinated, it's going to get safer for all sorts of places to open up again," Trevor Noah said on Tuesday's Daily Show.

Shadowland review – hopelessly inept Highlands horror

The antics of an evil creature on the loose in an abandoned military base are stymied by impenetrable storytelling

Shook review – stalk-and-slash horror with social media angle

With the gore unfolding on Zoom-style calls and home surveillance cameras, the story of online influencers being hunted by a killer is very 2021

'I get better sleep': the people who quit social media

Soo Youn is considering giving up the apps. She speaks to those who have already taken the plunge – with liberating results

Sophie: 10 of the greatest tracks by a genius of pop's expressive power

From productions for Charli XCX and Gaika to Sophie’s emotionally shattering solo works, we celebrate a truly singular artist who has died aged 34

Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer?

The Facebook-owned messaging service has been hit by a global backlash over privacy. Many users are migrating to Signal or Telegram. Should you join them?

Sing Me a Song review – sombre Bhutanese internet love story

French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addicted to online romance

Ignore NHS App Notification, Government Tells Users Whose 'Risk Level Has Changed'

Potentially millions of users of the NHS Covid-19 app awoke this morning to a worrying phone notification telling them the alert level in the area they lived had changed.

NHS App Upgraded To Calm Fears Over ‘Possible Covid-19 Exposure’ Glitch

The government has been forced to upgrade its NHS Covid app to reassure smartphone users worried by alert messages suggesting they have been exposed to the virus, HuffPost UK can reveal.

New NHS Test And Trace Phone App Needs Seven Million Users To Stop Covid Spread

At least seven million people will need to download the new NHS Test and Trace Covid app for it to start reducing the spread of the virus, according to government estimates.

Digital Transformation, 5G and XR Will Drive Next-Gen Fashion Shows

The fashion industry is shifting towards significant digital transformation. From 3D design to the digital showcasing of fashion collections, the digitalisation of physical garments demonstrates key areas of rapid expansion, as well as offering hope and opportunity to an industry in flux.

Exclusive: Tory Peer Dido Harding Pockets £65,000 For Two-Day-A-Week NHS Job

Tory peer Dido Harding has been paid around £175,000 by the taxpayer since she started a two-day-a week job within the NHS, HuffPost UK has learned.

Indian state hands out smartphones so poor children can access online lessons

Nearly 175,000 impoverished children in the Indian state of the Punjab will receive a free smartphone so they can continue their education remotely.

6 Of The Best Ways To Spend Your Lunch Break While Working From Home

With so many of us no longer reporting to the office every day, how can we use this new work setup to our advantage? One way to do that: By actually taking a break at lunchtime.

Will NHS Test And Trace By Ready In Time For A Second Wave?

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How We Cope: 11 Small Things That Have Helped Us Through Lockdown

We’re here to guide you through the coronavirus pandemic. Sign up to the Life newsletter for daily tips, advice, how-tos and escapism.

Lydia Greenway: 'Girls need the right kit, that's why we're doing this'

Finding equipment that fits correctly has always been a problem for Greenway so she used the time in lockdown to create an online cricket store for women and girls

Meditation Helped Me Survive Yarl’s Wood. Now It’s Helping Me Through Lockdown

Five years ago, I was held in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre for ten days.

Dispatch: 'A bad officer can just laugh' - George Floyd's killing and Minneapolis police failures

On Sept 9, 2010 David Cornelius Smith, 28, an unarmed black man, died face down on a YMCA basketball court in Minneapolis as a white officer knelt on him for four minutes.

Martin Scorsese in lockdown: an auteur's eye view of house arrest

The 77-year-old director’s thoughtful movie dispatch from his New York study for Mary Beard’s TV culture show is an affecting treat, and an honest reflection on ageing

Why Are Women So Divided On Porn? Our Latest Podcast Finds Out

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I’m A GP, And I Don’t Know When Things Will Be ‘Okay’ Again

Fear. Frustration. Futility. These are just some of the emotions I have experienced in my work as a GP over these past months.

Europe Braces For Second Wave of Coronavirus Infections

After months under strict lockdowns, Europeans have finally begun to enjoy a sense of newfound freedom in recent days — drinking at cafes, visiting museums and spending time outdoors with friends and family.

Data shows visitors from other states descended on Georgia once restaurants, salons reopened

Researchers at the University of Maryland who analyzed smartphone location data found that in the week after Georgia let businesses like dine-in restaurants and hair salons reopen on April 24, an additional 62,440 visitors traveled there daily, with most coming from nearby states where those businesses were still closed.

The NHS Covid-19 App Has Launched. Here's How It Works

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Coronavirus: Download NHS Tracing App 'To End Lockdown' And Four Other Stories You Need To Know

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Why The Right Kind Of Herd Immunity Could Come Back Into Fashion

You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening.Just say RThere was a moment in the No.10 press conference today that underlined the power and the pitfalls of the government’s coronavirus strategy.

Fewer Would Have Died If UK Had Covid Testing Capacity Sooner, Minister Admits

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NHS Covid-19 Tracing App Ready To Use In 'A Few Weeks', Says Grant Shapps

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NHS Covid-19 Tracing App Ready To Use In 'Few Weeks', Says Grant Shapps

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The Psychology Behind Why We Lose Track Of Time In Quarantine

A common refrain during the Covid-19 pandemic: Life is a blur.

There are 4 requirements for reopening the U.S. amid COVID-19. Americans won't tolerate all of them

The White House has proposed a list of "preparedness responsiblities" for lifting social distancing rules enacted to slow spread the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Coronavirus Has Brits Sleepwalking Into A Totalitarian Surveillance Stat

I never thought it would take as little as four weeks to accept a national decline into dystopia. But after just a month locked in my flat, calls from family and friends who live in countries outside the UK, with fewer restrictions than here, remind me that this is all a bit totalitarian.

How The World Could Exit Lockdown

Austria has become the first European country to outline plans for easing its coronavirus lockdown, providing a potential blueprint for how other nations might start to allow aspects of daily life to resume once they have brought the pandemic largely under control.

Lil Nas X: ‘I 100% want to represent the LGBT community’

He planned to hide his sexuality before his cowboy hit Old Town Road made him a superstar at 19. Now the rapper is ready to embrace life as a queer figurehead

Joe Biden is the worst imaginable challenger to Trump right now

For anyone plugged in to the news firehose about the coronavirus pandemic, it has been extremely bizarre to watch President Trump's approval rating.

Group Chats Making You Anxious? Us, Too. Here's How To Manage Them

Group Chats Making You Anxious? Us, Too. Here's How To Manage Them

How To Clean Your Phone To Stop Spreading Germs During The Coronavirus Outbreak

How To Clean Your Phone To Stop Spreading Germs During The Coronavirus Outbreak

5 Signs Your Partner's Porn Habits (Or Your Own) Have Become Problematic

5 Signs Your Partner's Porn Habits (Or Your Own) Have Become Problematic

Samsung says you can fold and unfold its new smartphone 'over 200,000 times'

Samsung has unveiled a brand new foldable smartphone they say "bends the laws of physics," inviting customers to put its screen to the test a few hundred thousand times.

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‘The Taliban say they’ll kill me if they find me’: a female reporter still on the run speaks out

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China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism

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‘The party’s over, Boris’: what the papers say about Johnson’s No 10 crisis

Tory anger spills on to front pages, along with snap polls calling for a change of prime minister

‘Bring your own booze’: newspapers lash PM over latest Downing Street party claim

Even pro-Tory titles voice anger at Boris Johnson in a reflection of growing upset on backbenches about alleged lockdown breaches

Trump’s social media app to launch in February, App Store listing says

Truth Social’s launch will come 13 months after the former president was banned from Twitter and Facebook

Jamal Khashoggi killers living in luxury villas in Riyadh, say witnesses

Exclusive: Reports of hit squad members living freely casts further doubt on Saudi claims that justice has been served

‘She stood in silence, remembering’: photographing Gaza under airstrikes

Fatima Shbair’s photo of a girl in her ruined home is an indelible image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s resurgence in MayRead more in our series: Forgotten human rights crises 2021For 11 days in May, Fatima Shbair hardly slept.

China deletes social media accounts of ‘livestreaming queen’

Huang Wei, known by username Viya, was ordered to pay record $200m tax evasion fine

‘A fire-eater who’s run out of fuel’: European press lays into Boris Johnson

Continental media are in no mood to donner un break to the British PM, sensing the ‘beginning of the end’

‘The Taliban say they’ll kill me if they find me’: a female reporter still on the run speaks out

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Daniel Radcliffe to star in Weird Al Yankovic biopic

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Max Reload and the Nether Blasters review – eager tribute to 1980s gaming culture

This adventure-romp has a true 16-bit aficionado’s attention to detail – there’s even a cameo from the high priest of geek, Kevin Smith

Home review – Franka Potente makes directing debut with haunting ex-con drama

Run Lola Run star goes behind the camera for California-set film about a killer who can’t escape his past

Moon Knight: Oscar Isaac’s British accent sounds like Dick Van Dyke doing Alan Bennett

I expected Marvel’s new mercenary superhero to sound growly and cool, not like an 18th-century Leicestershire grandmother

Torn review – tender love letter to mountain climber father who vanished

The son of renowned mountaineer Alex Lowe explores how his death in an avalanche shaped his own life in an absorbing documentary

Cicada review – slow-burn gay drama with beautiful scenes of New York

Though the story tends to drift at times, writer-director Matt Fifer’s realist romance is a tender, watchable indie with subtle comic flourishes

Memory Box review – family secrets and lies from Lebanon’s darkest days

Drama deftly switches across generations and time to explore the traumas inflicted by the civil war

Radiograph of a Family review – unveiling a marriage shaped by Iran’s history

Firouzeh Khosrovani’s autobiographical film shows how the turbulent currents of Iranian life defined her family’s life

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Everton’s Roberto Martínez job share proposal rejected by Belgian FA

Jan 17, 2022 14:56

Everton made a formal approach for Martínez on SundayManager keen to return but wants to lead Belgium to World CupEverton’s attempt to rehire Roberto Martínez has hit an immediate problem with the Royal Belgian Football Association rejecting a proposal for their head coach to combine his role with managing the Premier League club.

Eddie Jones can select unvaccinated players for England despite travel rules

Jan 17, 2022 13:56

Expanded 36-man Six Nations squad offers greater flexibilityUnvaccinated players unlikely to be able to enter Italy or FranceEddie Jones is free to select unvaccinated players in a bumper 36-man Six Nations squad on Tuesday despite strict travel rules that look set to rule them out of two of England’s three away fixtures, including a potential decider against France on Super Saturday.

Burnley v Watford postponed with only 10 first-team players available for Dyche

Jan 17, 2022 18:10

Covid, injuries and Afcon decimates depleted squadBurnley haven’t played since 8 January due to postponementsBurnley’s Premier League game against Watford has been postponed after the Premier League accepted the Clarets’ application that they had fewer than the required number of players available.

Australian Open 2022 day two: Broady v Kyrgios, Murray wins opener – live!

Jan 18, 2022 03:53

Updates from Melbourne with Emma Raducanu coming upAndy Murray beats Basilashvili in winning Melbourne returnEmma Kemp: Djokovic storm lingers but play goes onAny thoughts? Email or tweet @niallmcveighFirst set: Basilashvili 1-2 Murray* (*denotes next server) Wahey! Basilashvili attempts to serve but the ball hits the top of the frame of his racket and it pings off skywards! You don’t see that every day in professional tennis.

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Humiliation in Australia is a reflection of poor preparation, tactics and team selection. Urgent change is needed at the top

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Medical experts claim IOC is focusing on inclusion not scienceHead of World Athletics’ medical department backs statementThe International Olympic Committee’s new transgender framework has come under fire from medical experts who work for multiple sports federations, including World Athletics, World Triathlon and the International Cycling Union, who say it opens the door to unfair competition in female sport.

Stafford grabs first-ever playoff win as Rams set up showdown with Bucs

Jan 17, 2022 22:50

Arizona Cardinals 11-34 Los Angeles RamsSchedule for divisional round games now setMatthew Stafford passed for 202 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score in his first-ever playoff victory, and the Los Angeles Rams roared out of the wildcard round with a 34-11 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Monday night.

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