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Technology

  • The G8388 Loop high-speed train is passing through Kunshanba town in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on June 15, 2024.

    Social media
    China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack

    Clampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and child
  • A security guard next to a Meta sign showing the address 1 Hacker Way

    Social media
    Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks

  • Composite of false, AI generated images

    Deepfake
    Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

  • Clare Fernyhough, Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie of Smartphone Free Childhood

    Family
    Grassroots campaigners on a phone-free childhood

  • Bill Gates and Prince William listen to a delegate at a conference venue

    Environment
    AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says

  • Man puts hands to face in front of purple background

    Tesla
    Elon Musk has won $56bn pay package despite judge ruling it void, Tesla argues

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News

  • Google logo on building

    Google’s biotech company pulls out of Israel but says Gaza war not the reason

  • 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

  • Rock formations in Skazka Canyon, Kyrgyzstan

    Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

  • Man in blue T-shirt raises hand

    Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

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Privacy

  • An NHS hospital ward

    NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider

  • Nurses and medical staff in an NHS hospital ward

    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

    • Genetic testing company 23andMe investigated over hack that hit 7m users

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Spotlight

  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

  • An artist impression of the Microsoft Park Royal datacentre, now under construction in west London.

    AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

  • Journalist and TV presenter Stacey Dooley.

    Relive (and relitigate) celebrity courtroom scandals, with Stacey Dooley and friends

  • Antonio Calpanchay, now 45, has cut and sold blocks of salt from the Salinas Grandes, in northern Argentina, since he was 12.

    Battle lines redrawn as Argentina’s lithium mines ramp up to meet electric car demand

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Opinion & analysis

  • 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

  • Young middle-aged white man with brown hair and a black collarless jacket on a stage with a blue digital background.

    Should Tesla pay Elon Musk $45bn? The shareholders will decide

  • Nils Pratley

    Is the Tesla board in charge of a public company or the Elon Musk fan club?

    Nils Pratley
  • The Apple iOS 18 logo and Siri AI icon are displayed on a smartphone screen, seen against a pale grey background with the Apple logo

    Apple push into AI could spark smartphone upgrade ‘supercycle’

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Games

  • Nothing felt crafted or deliberate … a truck decorated with an ad for Pro Evolution 5.

    Jude Bellingham’s late stunner reminded me why Pro Evolution Soccer hit the target

    The England player’s impromptu move took me back to the noughties, when PES 4-6 provided ‘the illusion of control in a sandbox of chaos’. It was the beautiful video game
  • A girl plays an arcade machine at Game On at the National Museum of Scotland.

    Game On review – interactive gaming exhibition is a thoroughly fun day out

  • NHL 24 screenshot

    The hardest thing about modern sports games? Navigating EA’s customer support

    Dominik Diamond
  • Actor Ben Starr as Final Fantasy XV's Clive Rosfield

    ‘Suddenly I can play anybody’: what it’s like to act in a video game

  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

    The game design secrets of Elden Ring’s Hidetaka Miyazaki

  • Lawn Mowing Simulator

    ‘It’s impossible to play for more than 30 minutes without feeling I’m about to die’: lawn-mowing games uncut

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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

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Devices

  • A jumper displaying an electronic message

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

  • From the series Zwischen den Jahren ( Between the Years) by Valentin Goppel. Published by Gost books £40 https://gostbooks.com/products/zwischen-den-jahren

    Smartphones
    Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes review – deep dive into the teenage mind

  • Asus Zenbook Duo 2024 review has two screens.

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

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • 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?

    • didgital heart

      Computer says yes: how AI is changing our romantic lives

    • An image of a iPhone playing the Hidden Brain podcast and displaying the text transcription

      Accessible and ‘a pleasure to read’: how Apple’s podcast transcriptions came to be

    • A group of women each holding up their fingers and thumbs to make a 'W' shape

      ‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap

    • ‘I’d never thought about how our incessant use of headphones shields us from reality’: Ella Glover at home with her headphones.

      Come on, feel the noise: how I unplugged my headphones and reconnected with the world

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