Digital life
Living well with the tech you carry and rely on — your time and attention, where your files really live, and what you actually own and pay for.
- When 'prove you're human' is the trap
A fake 'prove you're human' check is doing the rounds — one that tells you to press a few keys to verify. Those keystrokes run hidden malware. One rule spots every version of it, and there's a clear step to take if you've already followed along.
- My Digital Life: the camera came back, and the thing people are escaping is the phone
Actual cameras are selling again for the first time in nearly two decades, and it's teenagers leading it. A look at why — and what leaving your phone in your pocket gives you.
- Keep your own copy
The photos, documents and creations you keep in someone else's app aren't really yours until you've saved a copy of your own. Services retire, accounts close, 'unlimited' ends — and a copy you hold is the one that survives.
- Why it's so hard to put your phone down — and what actually helps
A couple of minutes turns into an hour, then two. It isn't just teenagers — the apps are engineered to be hard to stop, and none of us self-regulate as well as we think. One old habit is quietly making a comeback as the answer.
- What "the cloud" actually is, and why it matters to you
In plain terms — what the cloud really is, what you own, and the one thing to do this week to protect what matters.