Author

Tamsin Ardley

Editor

11+ years experience

Tamsin came to Oddworldz after years of editing technology coverage for general readers. She writes on all three of the desk's beats, how things work online, AI oddities and digital life, and edits every piece for precision: what is known, what is guessed and what is simply a good story. Her favourite stories start with a small, strange observation and end with a clear explanation of the system behind it. Outside work she collects badly translated error messages.

Covers

  • internet infrastructure
  • technology explainers
  • fact-checking
  • digital culture
  • A phone weather app showing a sunset over mountains and pine trees
    IP geolocation

    How a Website Can Guess Your City Without Asking

    You never told that shopping site where you live, yet it greets you with local prices. The answer is your IP address, a set of commercial maps of the internet and a farm in Kansas that learned how wrong those maps can be.

    Tamsin Ardley 3 min read