We like to take time out to ponder. It’s a welcome break and has the added bonus of fueling our future work.

Apple and Google have both highlighted ‘digital health’ as one of the main features in their new OS updates — we take a step back and try to analyse exactly why this is.

In this issue, we look at why popcorn tastes better with chopsticks, the Fortnite phenomenon, Amazon’s recent strategic move and consumers’ increasing expectations around ethics.

In this week’s issue, we look at the changes Amazon are making to the Alexa platform to make Skill discovery easier, what runaway success on mobile looks like, why San Francisco’s scooters aren’t just toys and the launch of IGTV

This issue we focus on Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) that took place last week. The headline story: Siri receives a whole bunch of new features that increase the voice assistant’s functionality with third-party apps.

This week is all about new trends and releases. Venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases her famous Internet Trends Report for 2018, where she shows that voice assistants might be getting smarter at recognising speech than humans.

We look at research from Google on the mobile shopping experience, the implications of the growth of AI computing and the way sharing apps like “Bird” are creating unprecedented sources of income.

Here at Hi Mum! Said Dad, we’re lighting the mood with a big picnic lunch. Since you probably can’t join ?, we’re treating you with a revisit of Google’s I/O conference and a Medium post on technology in fashion retail. We also have a look at what could be the next African “super-app”…