Tech

A novelty golf-ball finder that conned the military: best podcasts of the week

This unbelievable, Alice Levine-narrated true story sees governments fooled by a fake bomb detector. Plus, Peter Bradshaw’s darkly comic thriller about a charming nurse

Mother of Flies review

The Adams-Poser clan, a family of four who make low-budget horror films, return with a menacing tale of Solveig, a woman attempting to cheat death by strange means

Matt Damon is right: phones + Netflix mean we are now in the pub bore age of cinema

The streaming giant has the data that proves we all just watch things with one hand gripping our phones, so need to have the plot explained to us over and over again

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

Is this man the future of music

Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called ‘the Ozempic of the music industry’?

What we know so far about high-speed train crash in Spain

At least 39 people dead after northbound train derailed and collided with oncoming train in Córdoba province