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Technology

  • OpenAI logo on a phone, with a keyboard in the background

    AI
    Microsoft drops observer seat on OpenAI board amid regulator scrutiny

    Startup’s new approach means Apple will no longer be able to appoint executive to similar role
  • Woman using Switchee thermostat

    Startups
    UK tech startup raises £5m to prevent dangerous mould in social housing

  • Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14446891a) The Meta logo is being displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 23, 2024. Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024

    Meta
    Company expands hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

  • Employee walks through elevated walkway

    Dyson
    Company to cut more than a quarter of UK workforce

  • Young woman networking with social media on smartphone in city street at night. Defocus street lights in background.

    Buyer’s guide
    The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

  • Microsoft Surface Pro 11 review desktop shown on a wooden table.

    Review
    Surface Pro 11: Microsoft’s big Arm leap almost pays off

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News

  • A worker on a crane removes a sign.

    Elon Musk beats $500m severance suit over mass Twitter layoffs

  • The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co outside the Samsung Electronics Seocho building in Seoul, South Korea

    Samsung Electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely

  • a bald man smiles

    Jeff Bezos to sell $5bn of Amazon shares after stock hits record high

  • yellow, green, red and blue tubes on ceiling connecting to floor in a grey room

    Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

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Privacy

  • a woman plays the guitar

    Hackers leak alleged Taylor Swift ticket data to extort Ticketmaster

  • An NHS hospital ward

    NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider

    • UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

    • What does the London NHS hospitals data theft mean for patients?

    • Records on 300m patient interactions with NHS stolen in Russian hack

    • Eddie Redmayne says Warren Beatty offered to bail him out after email hack

    • Cyber-attack on London hospitals to take ‘many months’ to resolve

    • Why passwords still matter in the age of AI

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Spotlight

  • When I was asked to write this column, I did the normal amount of research and read every single previous piece in preparation’: Bec Petraitis.

    Bec Petraitis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Front view of pink portable audio cassette player, cassette tape and vintage headphones on blue background

    My speakers don’t work properly and Apple won’t provide a refund. What are my entitlements?

  • From left, Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon

    James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

  • Dog approaching a lamb

    ‘The collie was trying to herd the lamb – but failing’: Mark Aitken’s best phone picture

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Opinion & analysis

  • human hand reaching for robotic hand

    Our attitudes towards AI reveal how we really feel about human intelligence

    Blaise Agüera y Arcas
  • Keir Starmer with Labour placard in background reading 'Change'

    Could the WhatsApp election hurt Labour at the polls?

  • Jensen Huang delivers a speech in Taipei, 2 June 2024: he is seen very small in the foreground in front of a black background with huge illustrated images of a robotic figure and moving mechanical joints behind him.

    Can AI boom drive Nvidia to a $4tn valuation despite investor doubt?

  • Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni talk while sat at a table

    Why the pope has the ears of G7 leaders on the ethics of AI

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Games

  • A screenshot of Avowed.

    Character builds, branching storylines and spells – what makes the perfect RPG?

    In this week’s newsletter: Fallout and Baldur’s Gate veteran Feargus Urquhart on the hard-to-define genre
  • Chaotic sci-fi dystopia … Zenless Zone Zero.

    Zenless Zone Zero review – stylish, enchanting and seductive

  • Many teens choose of their own free will to spend 10 or 20 hours a week playing games.

    It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games

    Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
  • A gaming convention in Germany

    Game over for Kotaku, Lifehacker and Gizmodo. Is this truly the end of Australian gaming journalism?

    Jackson Ryan
  • Professor experiemental, for use with piece on nerdcore music (c) area 51

    A hacked Game Boy, compliment battles, video games and Mr Blobby: the rise of UK nerdcore

  • ‘Viscerally satisfying’ … a player of FarmVille in 2008.

    FarmVille at 15: how a cutesy Facebook game shaped the modern internet

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • Evgeny Morozov

    Silicon Valley wants unfettered control of the tech market. That’s why it’s cosying up to Trump

    Evgeny Morozov
  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

  • A side-by-side image of Sam Bankman-Fried, a young white man with poofy brown hair, and the outside of a cream, Tudor-style building painted with pink trim.

    Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

  • A woman, left, holds a yellow sign reading 'Not Invited' while a man beside her looks off to the side.

    Voters to weigh in on whether tech billionaires can build new California city

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Reviews

  • The ‘knife-edge’ business of digital recreation in Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving

  • Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

    • Zenbook Duo review: are two laptop screens better than one?

    • Beats Solo Buds review: Apple’s budget earbuds rock

    • Her Name Was Moviola review – ode to editing machine a geekgasm for analogue fans

    • Beats Solo 4 review: Apple headphones get Android-loving upgrade

    • Sonos Ace review: quality noise-cancelling headphones worth the wait

    • Google Pixel 8a review: new Android mid-range champion

Devices

  • A jumper displaying an electronic message

    Wearables
    Wearable tech: how the human body can help power the future of smart textiles

  • Young woman networking with social media on smartphone in city street at night. Defocus street lights in background.

    Smartphones
    The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

  • Microsoft Surface Pro 11 review desktop shown on a wooden table.

    Tablets
    Surface Pro 11 review: Microsoft’s big Arm leap almost pays off

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Face detection, surveillance, camera image, face tracking, symbolic image,P6H05G Face detection, surveillance, camera image, face tracking, symbolic image,

    TechScape: Here’s four ways a new Labour government could use tech to boost Britain

    • a worker walks alongside rows of packages piled to the ceiling of a giant warehouse

      ‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills

    • Cda-Anthropic-Claude, Toronto, Canada - 04 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (14524985f) A person uses a computer, which is displaying various elements of Anthropic's website for their "Claude" Artificial Intelligence product, in a photo illustration made in Toronto, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Cda-Anthropic-Claude, Toronto, Canada - 04 Jun 2024

      Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing

    • A psychedelic illustration of mouths and eyes and lines

      Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

    • The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple campus, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

      Does what happens on your iPhone still stay on your iPhone?

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