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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood review – the powerful intimacy of women’s shared stories

Anna Hints follows a group of Estonian women into their secluded cabin, where their communion is almost mystic and no topic is off limits

From spiralisers to cordless irons, I’m a sucker for useless gadgets. Now I want a steamer

I don’t have bedbugs. I may never have bedbugs. So why am I lusting after the kit that would let me zap an infestation?

‘Calves are the biceps of the legs!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seven big life lessons

Find opportunity in failure – and don’t let your legs get in the way of world domination. Here is the distilled wisdom of Arnie’s first foray into self-help

Tarrac review – heart-on-sleeve Irish sports drama stays engagingly afloat

Formulaic it might be but this likeable, will-they-won’t-they underdog comedy about a group of female rowers in rural Kerry is a small triumph

Group chat ghostings, unrequited crushes and dating your friend’s ex: the teen girl problems being solved by adolescent agony aunts

This summer two 17-year olds started a blog to answer their peers’ most common problems. Then it took on a life of its own…

Tell us: were you inspired to move to a new city by a film or TV show?

We’d love to hear about what it is like to live in a place you fell in love with through a screen

‘You’ve got to be data-driven’: the fashion forecasters using AI to predict the next trend

Artificial intelligence can help predict style crazes, shape collections and help the environment by cutting waste material

Should I worry about blue light?

Is the glow from phones, tablets, computers and other devices really bad for our health?

How AI and brain science are helping perfumiers create fragrances

Beauty brands are looking to neuroscent research and technology to sniff out the factors that lure buyers

‘Can’t we have a funny joke?’ Why #girlmath is dividing TikTok

The lighthearted trend – using questionable numbers to justify indulgent purchases – has been accused of fueling sexism

Cinema may be going to the dogs, but at least dogs are going to the cinema

Booming canine audiences are defying the downward trend elsewhere in movieland. Never mind Paw Patrol, get ready for Barkenheimer

The Hollywood Walk of Shame: why the LA landmark is the world’s worst tourist attraction

Beating out some stiff competition, the dirty stars of Hollywood Boulevard can be crossed off your travel itinerary

Boring?! Rewatching screen favourites again and again is an addictive joy

Chronic revisiting leaves no chance of disappointment – satisfaction’s guaranteed

Joan Collins on love, loss and lust at 90: ‘You have to eat life or life will eat you!’

She has been famous for more than seven decades – and has as much zest and ambition today as she did at 18. She discusses fame, politics, the casting couch, motherhood and marrying five times

Waitrose turns to AI to create recipes for successful food products

The supermarket has used data from menus, online cuisine and social media posts to shape its Japanese range

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  • Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
  • Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
  • ‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
  • Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror
  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine review – scavenger’s story reveals a rich seam to mine
  • The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
  • Thirsty and power hungry: Australia is in the middle of a datacentre boom – but are they good for the economy?
  • Superfood or sweet treat? 17 delicious ways with popcorn – from snack bars and choux buns to salads and soups
  • Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
  • Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off
  • To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?
  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership

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