First Barbie then … Boglins? My quest to find a superstar in my bag of old toys

With studios desperate for other franchises to exploit, I wondered about the toys I’d kept from my childhood – could there be hidden gold among my obscure action figures?

Experience: my house is Insta-famous

My CCTV has picked up all sorts of funny images of people posing on my steps

Children as young as 10 demanding anti-ageing products, say UK dermatologists

Experts say social media behind increased use of products unsuitable for young people’s skin

If you think only lonely middle-aged women ‘fall for’ romance scams, you might be the perfect victim

This type of fraud might be easy to scoff at, but it’s common, sophisticated, and robs people of much more than just money, says writer Becky Holmes

AI fuelling dating and social media fraud, EU police agency says

Artificial intelligence enables criminals to target thousands of victims at once, say Europol experts

The Vinted phenomenon: how one woman sold her clothes – and created a billion-dollar company

In 2008, Milda Mitkute and a friend set up a website to clear out her closet. It soon grew exponentially. Now Vinted has 16 million UK users and is the first Lithuanian ‘unicorn’. Can it make secondhand our first choice?

How film distributor and studio A24 became the hottest name in merch

In this week’s newsletter: The company behind Priscilla and Uncut Gems sells clothes that are a knowing wink to fashionistas as much as cinephiles

A new start after 60: I was a secretary – until I stumbled upon an amazing story I had to film

Frances Harper had never used a video camera before. But at the age of 60, lying in the bath, she heard a story that changed her life

Golden Globes 2024: Oppenheimer Succession and Poor Things win big – as it happened

The first starry awards event of the year has been dominated by Barbenheimer and the final season of Succession

We should cherish handwriting: the scribbled, the scrawled, the stubbornly jotted

Our communications lose character when we give up putting pen to paper. It’s hard to imagine an Auden poem celebrating the arrival of the night email

‘I hope it makes everyone want to jump!’: Michelle Z Simmons’ best phone picture

The photographer on bringing a fresh perspective to snapping dancers

‘I feel I’m addicted’: readers on their relationships with their phones

Many feel unhappy with their dependence on their cellphone, a wide-ranging Guardian project has found, but some insist not all screen time is equal

Biopic woman: move over Napoleon, Ferrari and Oppenheimer … here come the wives

From Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to Michael Mann’s Ferrari, this has been a year of biopics about men, by men. But it’s the female powerhouses who deserve equal billing

Everyone is on their phones. But is it really phone addiction we’re experiencing?

There is no standard diagnosis for ‘phone addiction’, and a debate rages about whether there should be. But will medicalizing a behavior help or harm those suffering from it?

I tried to get over my phone addiction – by spending even more time on it

In week 1 of Rhik Samadder’s detox, he tries aversion therapy. Can he use his phone to such excess it makes him sick of it?