Apart from the crack in the ceiling above my bed, the eyes of my beloved, and my own sorry reflection, there’s probably nothing in the universe I spend more time looking at than my phone. It’s first thing I see in the morning, and the last thing I glimpse at night. It lives in my pocket and appears, like a phantom, in my hand, at least 100 times a day. Which is why I was so damned happy the other day when I remembered I could change my phone’s wallpaper.

Obviously, yes, I was dimly aware this was a function of iOS, but for some reason Apple has stopped talking about it at official events. The epiphany hit me when I saw a tweet from marine life research organization Ocearch. They’ve been tracking a 25-foot long whale shark named Rocky,…

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