The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism: ‘People travel from all over the world. It’s mind-blowing!’

Beer crawls are out and bakery crawls are in, with people arranging whole days, weekends or even holidays around the search for the perfect loaf or croissant

Hell is not other people – it’s being stuck in the ninth circle of an automated telephone service

Tuvalu is celebrating its first ATM, but here’s a warning from the UK, where human contact has been lost to the self-service age, says author Hilary Freeman

‘Locking in’: how gen Z are fighting against phones and booze – to become hyper-focused

In an age of distraction, people in their teens and 20s are setting aside negative influences and concentrating on dogged pursuit of their goals

Drones could deliver NHS supplies under UK regulation changes

New rules would allow flights beyond visual line of sight limit, enabling remote prescription deliveries as well as offshore inspections

Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says children’s commissioner for England

Dame Rachel de Souza says parents should look to their own smartphone use and not try to be their children’s friend

You are descending into populist frustration. Thank you for continuing to hold

Neverending calls to automated customer service lines aren’t just frustrating – new research suggests they may be quietly radicalising as well

‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?

JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces

Having as many babies as possible is not the only way to show you love humanity

Elon Musk is obsessed with falling birth rates, as is the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. Why would leftwingers want to buy into their ‘pronatalist’ agenda, asks Zoe Williams

Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears

‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

From virtual ‘wives’ to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbots

Older people who use smartphones ‘have lower rates of cognitive decline’

Analysis of over-50s who engage with phones, tablets and other devices challenges fears of ‘digital dementia’

Abortion Dream Team review – dynamic study of activists resisting Poland’s near-total ban

Karolina Domagalska’s film follows the tireless work of an activist group founded to battle the country’s legislation against reproductive rights

‘A man approached him’: parents describe their children’s Roblox problems

People tell how their children have been negatively affected by the gaming platform or have come to serious harm

Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums

Exclusive: Police set up taskforce to tackle online violence as young men seek victims on eating disorder forums