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“Stealing Isn’t Innovation”: Why Scarlett Johansson Is Drawing A Line On AI ‘Theft’
In the ever-blurring space where technology meets culture, a new fault line has appeared – and it runs straight through Hollywood, publishing houses and recording studios. Scarlett Johansson, alongside Cate Blanchett, Olivia Munn, Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan and musicians including REM, Cyndi Lauper and Simon Le Bon, has signed an open letter accusing tech companies…
Read MoreLost in Translation? WhatsApp’s New Update Just Fixed That
If you’ve ever nodded politely in a multilingual group chat while quietly pasting messages into Google Translate, WhatsApp’s latest update is about to change your life. This month, WhatsApp began rolling out an in-chat translation feature that allows users to translate messages directly within the app – no copy-paste gymnastics required. The goal, according to…
Read MoreFive Things to Try With Apple Intelligence – A Founder’s Guide
For years, artificial intelligence has been positioned as something to prepare for – complex, fast-moving and often framed around what it might replace. Apple Intelligence arrives with a different emphasis: not disruption for disruption’s sake, but practical tools designed to support how people already work, think and create. On Wednesday 21 January 2026, The Modems…
Read MoreCould Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Come to the UK?
When Australia flicked the switch on the world’s first nationwide ban on social media for under-16s, it didn’t just trigger a collective gasp across Silicon Valley – it sent a ripple through Westminster. Suddenly, a policy that once sounded unthinkable moved from fringe idea to dinner-table debate. And this week, the UK government turned the…
Read More“Weapons of Abuse”: Liz Kendall Is Forcing Grok And X to Answer for AI Deepfakes
For the last couple of years, artificial intelligence has been sold to us as sleek, helpful and magical – a frictionless assistant that edits our photos, writes our emails and quietly optimises our lives. But this week, the British government delivered a sharp reminder that when technology outpaces accountability, the consequences land squarely on human…
Read More10 Tech-Savvy Ways to Digitally Reset for 2026
If the past few years were about learning to live with technology, 2026 is shaping up to be about learning how to live well with it. The constant notifications, endless dashboards and performative productivity tools have left many of us digitally exhausted. This year’s reset isn’t about deleting everything or going off-grid – it’s about…
Read MoreThe 17 Best New Gadgets We Saw at CES 2026 – From AI Beauty Tech to Home Robots
Every January, the Consumer Electronics Show – better known as CES – descends on Las Vegas. What began as a trade show for televisions and stereo systems has quietly evolved into something far more revealing: a live mood board for how we’ll live, age, groom, eat, rest and relate to technology over the next decade.…
Read MoreAmanda Nguyen Breaks Her Silence On “Tsunami Of Harassment” Post Blue Origin Spaceflight
Space has always been sold to us as a place beyond earthly politics. A vacuum where gravity loosens its grip and humanity’s best instincts – curiosity, ingenuity, collective ambition – are meant to rise. But when Amanda Nguyen boarded Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule in the spring of 2025, she learned the hard way that…
Read MoreThe Top 15 Tech Trends to Have on Your Radar in 2026, According to The Modems
If 2024 was the year we collectively learned to type “please” to machines (because manners, but also fear), and 2025 was the year AI stopped being a party trick and started being a workplace expectation, then 2026 is the year tech gets… intimate. Not just in the your-photos-are-training-data way, but in the your-voice, your face,…
Read MoreChatGPT Becomes Apple’s Most Downloaded App of 2025
Apple has revealed its annual list of the most downloaded apps and games of the year in the US – and one result feels particularly telling. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has officially claimed the No.1 spot among free iPhone apps (excluding games) in 2025, outpacing social media giants, search engines and everyday utilities alike. Just behind ChatGPT…
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