The thick water challenge is a viral trend on TikTok where people try thickened water products and record their reaction. Although the trend may seem innocent at first, it could potentially indirectly harm people who have disorders which cause difficulty in swallowing. Here’s everything you need to know and why you should skip this latest TIkTok trend.

When we think of the future, our minds tend to wander towards flying cars and the Metaverse. But what if I told you that smart toilets might be more like it?

Social media users on TikTok and Twitter used Grindr to find athletes in Tokyo’s Olympic Village with profiles on the gay dating app.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused what some predict to be the hardest blow in GDP in the last 300 years. The medicinal cannabis and CBD sector might just be the key the UK needs to recover from a mighty economic blow.

Nowadays, there are many jobs that can be done online, and lucrative careers have stemmed from this new technology. Here are our top ones.

The Galileo Project will look for mysterious artefacts that could be satellites hiding in Earth orbit, interstellar objects, and even unexplained craft in Earth’s atmosphere.

Does caffeine inject a sense of purpose to your mornings? If so, congratulations, you have something revolutionary in common with bumblebees. Here’s how morning brews can help a species on the brink of extinction rise and grind in hopes of a sustainable future.

The gaming industry has once again shown it facilitates a ‘frat boy’ and misogynistic work environment. Activision Blizzard is being sued due to its discrimination against women—particularly, though not exclusively, towards women of colour.

Facebook reaffirmed its intention to build an Instagram for children under 13 and revealed it will also set the accounts of Instagram users under the age of 16 to private by default.

Facebook has announced its plans to form a new team to work on Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a new digital universe—the Metaverse. But what exactly is the Metaverse and how will it change the internet as we know it?

The Tory party has rarely had a flourishing relationship with the arts: always deemed too left wing, too liberal. But several recent examples are practically Orwellian.

Have you ever wanted to be a ‘friendly’ neighbourhood vigilante on a payroll? How about one of those bystanders who whip out their phones to film a crime scene before calling the police? Crime tracking app Citizen is now soliciting applications for disaster streamers, making it a controversial substitute for local journalism.

As the Tokyo Olympics 2020 kick-off a year later than expected, the games have been tainted with scandal after scandal. Here’s a breakdown of all the controversies so far (to be continued).

What are aesthetics and subcultures exactly? Is there a difference between the two? If so, what should we—as both the audience and the creator—know before jumping on one? In a bid to clear out the basics, we asked two active members of the internet’s “one-stop shop” for aesthetics and subcultures to explain.

His voyage to space might have happened a lot sooner but the space programme found itself riddled with setbacks including failed launches and a pandemic to contend with.

Tired of putting exclamation marks after every text to convey your enthusiasm? Enter tone indicators, a revolutionary communication tool that speaks volumes on platforms you physically cannot.