From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Measles was eradicated in the Americas, Beyoncé made “Lemonade” and liberal hopes were high for the first woman president. Voters were encouraged to Pokémon Go to the polls. Remember 2016? A decade on ...

The first two weeks of 2026 have sparked a wave of nostalgia online, with social media users enthusiastically revisiting a decade old version of themselves. From grainy iPhone photos to overused ...

You’d think there’d be more excitement around the new year—we’re only three weeks in, people!—but instead everyone’s occupied with plumbing the depths of their camera rolls for relics of their 2016 ...

The year was 2016, and, man, was there a lot going on at the time. Donald Trump was entering his first term as President of the U.S. "Deadpool" released and became the highest grossing R-rated movie. ...

Well, it’s the start of a brand-new year. But instead of planning for the future and looking ahead, all anyone seems to want to do is to go back. Thanks to a new TikTok hazy purple-blue filter ...

Over the holidays, the first trend of 2026 emerged: the year 2016. “2026 is the new 2016,” users declared, in captions waxing poetic about the good old days, accompanied by Instagram-filtered photo ...

As galling as it is to see young people refer to the items I wore 10 years ago as ‘vintage’, surely the real problem is that so many of them believe their best ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Personal Data Servers are the persistent data stores of the Bluesky network. It houses a user's data, stores credentials, and if a user is kicked off the Bluesky network the Personal Data Server admin ...