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ASMR YouTube videos are calming and gentle. The comments under them are even better
People come to these videos to feel peaceful and good. It makes sense that they would …
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Instagram to require all users to enter birthdate
Move is part of firm’s efforts to introduce child-safe experience for under-18s Insta…
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Robo-penguin: how artificial birds are relaying the secrets of ocean currents
They can go on research missions in stormy weather, dive to 150 metres and could soon …
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No More Heroes 3 review – anarchic alien-killer goes out with a bang
Nintendo Switch; Grasshopper Manufacture/Marvelous Ugly, unpolished and ultraviolent –…
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China cuts amount of time minors can spend playing online video games
Under-18s will be allowed to play online games for one hour on Fridays, weekends and h…
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Here's why Elon Musk’s robot is electrified neoliberalism | Van Badham
It is time to evaluate how much transformational control we give billionaires over our…
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Walls that talk: how to buy real art in lockdown, from budget finds to custom commissions
Want an original artwork in your home but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you and…
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The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones
A survey has found only a fraction of 16- to 24-year-olds think phone calls are remote…
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‘Selling a promise’: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos
The company’s collapse has changed the startup environment, but some say the industry …
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Scepticism grows in El Salvador over pioneering Bitcoin gamble
Country will be first to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender next month – but economi…
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Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power
Technology could help power a clean energy transition if it can overcome hurdles of co…
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Elizabeth Holmes: from Silicon Valley’s female icon to disgraced CEO on trial
Once the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire, the former head of Theranos is…
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Why OnlyFans had second thoughts on banning sexually explicit content
Homegrown adult content site announced last week it was suspending adult content, only…
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‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland
He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch, the maverick boss of Tesla and SpaceX who wants us…
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Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse?
Trillions of metallic nodules on the sea floor could help stop global heating, but min…
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‘People wanted to believe’: reporter who exposed Theranos on Elizabeth Holmes’ trial
As blood testing startup founder’s fraud trial looms, John Carreyrou says hero worship…
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The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency
Power from fusion has proved too hard to generate at scale. Can recent breakthroughs a…
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Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits visually impaired athlete
Japan’s Aramitsu Kitazono was left with cuts and bruises after being hit by the e-Pale…
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From a villa of bees to a £7 onion: online deliveries take a strange turn
No apps can summon couriers in minutes, readers and riders tell of more unusual pandem…
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Boy, 12, makes £290,00 in non-fungible tokens with digital whale art
Benyamin Ahmed’s Weird Whales sell in cryptocurrency and ownership is stored on blockc…
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Nvidia vows to counter any EU concerns over $54bn Arm takeover
Investigation into US tech firm’s proposed acquisition of British chip designer expect…
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‘I don’t like being treated like crap’: gig workers aim to retool a system they say is rigged
Uber, Lyft and other companies fighting Massachusetts lawsuit that would grant workers…
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Apple agrees to App Store changes letting developers email users about payment options
Preliminary lawsuit settlement allows developers to circumvent the tech giant’s lucrat…
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‘Chipageddon’: how a global tech crisis came to sound quite tasty
First chickens, and now a worldwide shortage of microprocessors … the word ‘chip’ is t…
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Elizabeth Holmes stands trial – podcasts of the week
The acclaimed Dropout podcast returns to chronicle legal proceedings against the Thera…
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UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and conse…
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Apple allows children to access casual-sex and BDSM apps, finds report
App Store gave 14-year-old’s account access to apps rated ‘17+’ even though it knew us…
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OnlyFans scraps plans to ban sexually explicit material
U-turn comes after resolution of issues with payment processors, says chief executive …
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TechScape: why OnlyFans is pivoting from porn
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Psychonauts 2 review – a surreal adventure that’s unashamedly itself
PC, Xbox, PlayStation 4; Double Fine/Microsoft The warped worlds inside people’s mind…
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Rise of the robo-drama: Young Vic creates new play using artificial intelligence
Inspired by a Guardian article, the theatre’s surreal and spellbinding show AI is a co…
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Cash for kills: why are people paying for coaches to get better at video games?
A thriving new industry, matching people with pro gamers who advise and counsel, has e…
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Airbnb to help house up to 20,000 Afghan refugees
Company’s charitable arm will work with hosts willing to offer spaces, but has yet to …
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Uber rival Didi Chuxing suspends plans for UK and Europe launch
Company won licences for Manchester and Sheffield but faces pressure from Chinese gove…
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Do dress up, don’t get drunk: how to have a great virtual date
Lockdown or no lockdown, the video-call date is here to stay. Experts reveal how to lo…
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Ethiopia starts building local rival to Facebook
Government wants its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp …
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PayPal to allow UK users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies
Payment platform offers service for bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash PayP…
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From Lake to Metroid Dread: the most exciting video games for autumn 2021
Escape to 1980s Oregon, get stuck in an art deco assassin game or liberate a Caribbean…
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Boyfriend Dungeon review – a video game where you can date your weapons
PC, Xbox One, Switch; Kitfox Games It’s a jokey concept, but this dating game/dungeon …
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Victor Keegan: ‘They gave me a demo and showed me things I couldn’t believe’
The correspondent who went on to put the first Guardian content online recalls the cha…
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Ikea Symfonisk picture frame review: Sonos wifi speaker hidden by art
Latest collaboration puts great sound behind fabric art panel that can be hung or lean…
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Zoom dilemmas solved! Expert advice on making video chats less awkward and more fun
Whether it’s chatting with small children, planning occasions or finding ways to socia…
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Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine j…
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The party’s over: China clamps down on its tech billionaires
The startling rise to wealth of the nation’s entrepreneurs has been an affront to Beij…
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Disinfection robots and thermal body cameras: welcome to the Covid-free office
A workplace in Bucharest filled with anti-virus innovations could become the new norma…
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How to buy a secondhand smartphone – and what to look out for
They are good for the environment and your wallet but there can be pitfalls. Here’s ho…
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Meet the man behind Tveeder, the no-frills live TV transcript that became an Australian media hero
Beloved by journalists and increasingly used by a wider public, Tveeder is still run f…
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Humanoid ‘Tesla Bot’ likely to launch next year, says Elon Musk
Billionaire Tesla chief gives no indication of any progress in actually building such …
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Australians hit by ‘Flubot’ malware that arrives by text message
New scam spreads to Australia from Europe, targeting thousands of Android users Thous…
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Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade. What happens to them?
The quest to prevent batteries – rich in raw materials such as cobalt, lithium and nic…
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Amazon reportedly plans to open department stores
Company’s latest move comes after years of competing against brick-and-mortar retailer…
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Apple delays return to corporate offices until 2022 as Covid cases rise
The iPhone maker had previously planned to ask staff to go back in October for three d…
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Apple refuses a refund after my sister ran up £1,100 bill on ‘bundles’
She has a learning disability and doesn’t know what in-app purchases are I recently f…
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Stephen Fry spills the secrets of the Edwardians – podcasts of the week
From sexual revolution to the suffragettes, Fry examines Edward VII’s reign in his pol…
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Meng Wanzhou: ‘princess of Huawei’ who became the face of a high-stakes dispute
The executive’s case has sent China’s relations with the US and Canada plummeting with…
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Zuckerberg deflects questions about vaccine disinformation on Facebook
CEO says problem is primarily one of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ among the US public, touting …
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Facebook pledges to become ‘water positive’ by 2030
The tech firm aims to restore more water than it consumes, as it competes to meet gree…
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How artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size
The artist and social media critic on his work subverting the manipulative practices o…
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UK consortium enters race to build solid-state batteries for electric cars
While some prototypes exist, firms have struggled to commercialise a durable solid-sta…
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At home with a heat pump: ‘It makes hot water when it’s freezing outside’
Four householders with recently installed air source heat pumps discuss the ups and do…
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Facebook no, Twitter yes: which tech firms let the Taliban post?
Analysis: Twitter has faced criticism for allowing members to post, while Facebook has…
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Alexei Toliopoulos: the funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
We ask funny people about what’s funny online. Comedian Alexei Toliopoulos dives so de…
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Twelve Minutes review – a tense time-loop thriller
Xbox, PC; Luis Antonia/Annapurna Interactive This stylish, twisted take on movies such…
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Alexa Chung’s YouTubes haven’t helped my hair – but they have helped me through lockdown
Sinead Stubbins is the first to admit she might know a bit too much about the British…
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Why bitcoin entrepreneurs are flocking to rural Texas
Mining cryptocurrency requires lots of cheap energy and many miners have settled on Te…
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Bezos’s Blue Origin sues US over Nasa’s decision to award contract to SpaceX
Lawsuit filed after Blue Origin offered Nasa $2bn if it would change its mind on lunar…
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Tesla’s Autopilot faces US investigation after crashes with emergency vehicles
• Investigators to review 765,000 vehicles made since 2014 • NHTSA identifies 11 cras…
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Why Mass Effect is some of the best sci-fi ever made
By turns as cerebral as Star Trek, as hopeful as Asimov and as dramatic as Battlestar …
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Don’t put on a happy face! Are you using the smiley emoji all wrong?
The classic grinning emoji has once more changed its meaning – at least amongst gen Ze…
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How artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size
The artist and social media critic on his work subverting the manipulative practices o…
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Game (voice)over: actors turn to video game work during pandemic
Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of…
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UK security chiefs issue guidance to ministers over hackers on WhatsApp
Exclusive: civil service chief points to work to improve cybersecurity in response to …
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Disgraced Samsung boss released early from South Korean prison
Billionaire vice-chair was serving 30-month sentence for bribing country’s former pres…
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‘White hat’ hacker behind $610m crypto heist returns most of money
About $33m in frozen coins yet to be returned as still-unidentified hacker claims atta…
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The 15 greatest video games of the 00s – ranked!
The decade that began with the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and ended with the Wi…
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TikTok acts on teen safety with ‘bedtime’ block on app alerts
Social networking firm introduces range of child safety measures including increased p…
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Facebook could be forced by UK watchdog to sell gif creator Giphy
Site aims to integrate service with Instagram which ‘could see Facebook withdrawing gi…
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UK firms may buy Welsh computer chip maker if Chinese takeover fails
Technology executive Ron Black says nine companies are willing to join consortium in p…
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OnePlus Nord 2 review: near top performance at a mid-range price
New Android phone offers most of what makes the best phones great, but is half the pri…
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Shocking new scares from Dr Death – podcasts of the week
Paolo Macchiarini is the subject of the latest series of the hit medical malpractice s…
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Australian government warned two weeks ago fake Covid check-in apps being used to by-pass contact tracing
A public tip-off alerted the police and health departments in three states but the app…
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Google staff could see pay cut if they opt to work from home
Pay calculator suggests workers who commute long-distance could see salary drop if the…
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Australian conspiracy theorists and anti-lockdown groups share fake Covid check-in apps
Exclusive: Spoof software likely to cause difficulties for contact tracers in the even…
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YouTube suspends Rand Paul for video claiming masks ‘don’t prevent infection’
Video platform suspends Republican senator, in latest move against a public figure who…
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Instagram apologises after Almodóvar poster censorship row
The poster for new film Parallel Mothers, which depicts a female nipple, was removed f…
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Samsung launches first water-resistant folding phone and Google watch
New flip phones and phone-tablet hybrids, plus updated earbuds and first Google Wear O…
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Techies think we’re on the cusp of a virtual world called ‘the metaverse’. I’m skeptical | Sean Monahan
Silicon Valley has been anticipating virtual reality for more than three decades, and …
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Don’t put on a happy face! Are you using the smiley emoji all wrong?
The classic grinning emoji has once more changed its meaning – at least amongst gen Ze…
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TechScape: Is Apple taking a dangerous step into the unknown?
Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Privacy fears over Apple’s plans to…
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Facebook shuts accounts in anti-vaccine influencer campaign
Russia-based marketing firm sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid vacc…
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