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From super scooters to smarter meters: six firms to watch in 2023
Times are tough for businesses old and new, but the pace of change in many sectors thi…
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AI-assisted plagiarism? ChatGPT bot says it has an answer for that
Silicon Valley firm insists its new text generator, which writes human-sounding essays…
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Why did the US just ban TikTok from government-issued cellphones?
Trump tried to impose a total ban on the China-based app and some states have already …
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Inflation, tech plunge and ‘crypto winter’: global stock markets in 2022
Shares tumble and government bonds hammered by central banks’ interest rate rises FT…
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Year of the tech grifter: will Silicon Valley ever learn from its mistakes?
The tech industry’s hype machine always trumpets a fresh new ‘genius’ – and it still h…
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Best podcasts of the week: The rise and fall of the Silicon Valley brand that made antidepressants ‘cool’
In this week’s newsletter: Cerebral raised millions from investors, but ended under in…
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Guardian tech reviews in 2022: better to repair and longer-lasting devices
More devices contain recycled materials and are supported for longer, but there is muc…
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Police in China can track protests by enabling ‘alarms’ on Hikvision software
Chinese surveillance manufacturer Hikvision has put in place tools to help police trac…
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‘He’s having the time of his life!’ How Tariq the Corn Kid embraced global fame – and broccoli
The seven-year-old’s deep love of sweetcorn made him a viral sensation. But how do you…
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TikTok banned on devices issued by US House of Representatives
Politicians ordered to delete Chinese-owned social video app that House has said repre…
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Cybersecurity firm links Piers Morgan Twitter hack to leak of 400m records
Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison among politicians and celebrities whos…
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Tesla stock marks lowest close in years as investors worry about Musk’s focus
Experts blame Elon Musk’s management style at Twitter for the electric carmaker’s fina…
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The best of the long read in 2022
Our 20 favourite pieces of the year Gary Hersham has been selling houses to the very …
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Musk, Zuck, SBF: the lousiest tech bosses of 2022 – rated
It’s been a bad year for delusional egomaniacs in Silicon Valley. But who had it worst…
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Twitter restores suicide-prevention hotline feature after outcry
Top official confirms feature was removed but only temporarily, following Reuters repo…
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‘Brilliant fun’: UK automaker shrinks classic cars for big spenders
The Little Car Company, housed in a converted RAF base at Bicester, makes miniature cl…
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Elon Musk ‘orders Twitter to remove suicide prevention feature’
Sources say new owner sought removal of #ThereIsHelp feature that appeared at top of c…
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Pushing Buttons: Stray, Sifu, Tunic – what you loved playing this year
In this week’s newsletter: The cat games, 80s kung fu fighters, isometric RPGs and mor…
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TikTok admits using its app to spy on reporters in effort to track leaks
Chinese parent company, ByteDance says four employees, based in both US and China, hav…
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How expanding its vegan range is helping Hotel Chocolat grow – with a little help from robots
Additional technology – and potential extension to factory – could help raise producti…
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Ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried out on $250m bail after extradition from Bahamas
FTX founder must remain under strict supervision at parents’ California home, judge sa…
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A parent’s guide to setting up a new games console at Christmas
It your children have a new Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo Switch waiting under the tre…
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Best podcasts of the week: How Danielle Miller went from socialite to swindler
In this week’s newsletter: The new season of Queen of the Con tells the wild story of …
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Two associates of Sam Bankman-Fried plead guilty to fraud charges in FTX fall
Carolyn Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX, ple…
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Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network
Elon Musk admits banning links to Twitter rival was a mistake Elon Musk’s chaotic aut…
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The 20 best video games of 2022
From robot-dinosaurs and hypersexual witches to epic clashes with mythological Gods an…
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Australia’s viral moments in 2022: a courtly cavoodle, a political bulldozer and Cumdog
An entertaining election gave us twerking Shrek and an unexpected football tackle, but…
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Investigation of Musk’s Neuralink targets federal oversight of animal testing
Sources tell Reuters law enforcement authorities are concerned about USDA’s record on …
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UK orders sale of Russian-backed broadband firm Upp over ‘security risk’
Regional provider is owned by LetterOne, whose investors include Mikhail Fridman and P…
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Goat Simulator 3 review – a deranged, self-destructive caprine bender
Xbox, PlayStation, PC; Coffee Stain Studios Drag voters to the polls as your physics-d…
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TechScape: Elon Musk’s poll own goal proves he can’t get out of his own way
In this week’s newsletter: Musk has a talent for trying to wiggle out of trouble on Tw…
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Twitter users voted Elon Musk out. But CEO or not, he’ll still call the shots | Sarah Manavis
Even if the multi-billionaire owner accepts his user poll and stands down, his machina…
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried agrees to US extradition
Crypto mogul’s lawyer in Bahamas says he wanted to see indictment before consenting to…
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Amazon Kindle Scribe review: supersized e-reader aims to replace paper
Monochrome device offers reading and handwriting on a big e-ink screen with very long …
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Fortnite video game maker to pay $520m over privacy and billing claims
Epic Games agrees with FTC to pay $275m fine for collecting data on children and refun…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter poll: 10 million say he should step down
Billionaire chief executive of Tesla insists there is no successor in the wings at soc…
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Music to harvest and relax to: how the Stardew Valley soundtrack caught the rhythms of the seasons
Like everything else about the hit indie farming game, Stardew Valley’s soundtrack is …
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Musk sets up Twitter poll asking if he should step down as head
Twitter owner promises to abide by the results of the poll, less than two months after…
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‘Our weapons are computers’: Ukrainian coders aim to gain battlefield edge
Delta software developed to help collect and disseminate information about enemy’s mov…
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The 10 biggest science stories of 2022 – chosen by scientists
From moon missions to fast-charging batteries and AI-sourced antibiotics, in no partic…
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Elon Musk is a Jekyll and Hyde character. And as head of Twitter, Hyde is winning | John Naughton
On the one hand, he’s a creative genius. On the other, he’s destroying a key debating …
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In balmy Puerto Rico, diehards shrug off the crypto winter: ‘We’re not worried’
Blockchain aficionados have long flocked to the island for its favorable tax laws. But…
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Twitter suspension of journalist accounts sets dangerous precedent, says UN – video
The UN has said Twitter's decision to ban the accounts of a number of prominent US…
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Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of suspended journalists
On a wild day of bans, sudden U-turns and chaotic messaging, Musk abides by Twitter po…
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Amazon workers vote to strike at Coventry depot in UK first
GMB union hails major victory as staff back stoppages over their demand for a pay rise…
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From Musk to Truss, 2022 was the year reckless populists came crashing down to Earth | Gaby Hinsliff
Revolutionaries who claim to bring down corrupt systems have proved that orthodoxy exi…
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High on Life review – limp gunplay and questionable taste
Xbox, PC; Squanch Games This first-person shooter from Rick and Morty’s co-creator pa…
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Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption. The FTX scandal shows it’s got worse | David A Banks
The collapse of the feted company should provide a wake-up call to Rishi Sunak, who ha…
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Meta warns spyware still being used to target people on social media
Facebook owner says companies are adapting and changing tactics in face of efforts to …
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The Forest Quartet review – joyous jazz in a surreal forest of memory
PC, PlayStation; Mads & Friends/Bedtime Digital Games Three musicians pick up the …
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Pushing Buttons: Shouldn’t the ‘video game Oscars’ be about more than just hours of trailers?
In this week’s newsletter: Other than God of War star Christopher Judge’s heartfelt ac…
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Best podcasts of the week: Is a four-day week the secret to a better work-life balance?
In this week’s newsletter: Working It from the Financial Times investigates how four b…
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Meta faces $1.6bn lawsuit over Facebook posts inciting violence in Tigray war
Legal action backed by Amnesty alleges hateful posts inflaming war in northern Ethiopi…
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Binance founder insists ‘business as usual’ after $1bn pulled out in a day
Changpeng Zhao calls withdrawals a ‘stress test’ as investors continue to react to FTX…
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Elon Musk loses title of world’s richest person to Bernard Arnault
Loss of top spot to LVMH chief executive comes after Tesla shares more than halve in v…
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Bose QuietComfort Earbuds 2 review: the new noise-cancelling benchmark
Smaller, lighter and more comfortable – these earbuds pack good sound and solid batter…
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TechScape: I read Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ so you don’t have to
In this week’s newsletter: The leaks don’t reveal a hotbed of leftwing bias at the soc…
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‘Why can’t anyone make a decision?’ My first time as a D&D Dungeon Master
I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was a kid, but my first time directing …
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Twitter abruptly dissolves safety council moments before meeting
The firm’s turmoil appears to deepen since Elon Musk’s takeover with Yoel Roth forced …
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Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas as criminal charges loom
Arrest just 24 hours before founder of cryptocurrency exchange was to testify before U…
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Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup
For one weird year, I was the human who stepped in to make sure a property chatbot did…
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Elon Musk booed by crowd after Dave Chappelle introduces him on stage – video
The new Twitter owner, Elon Musk, was booed for almost 10 minutes after he was introdu…
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‘Monstrosities in the farmland’: how giant warehouses transformed a California town
Ontario was once at the center of the dairy industry. Now it’s home to Amazon’s larges…
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The Game awards: three patience-testing hours of video game advertorials
By focusing on the near-future of the industry, the honours failed to adequately celeb…
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US agency moves to block landmark merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard
Regulators voted 3-1 to stop the biggest acquisition in video game history, citing con…
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Twitter relaunches blue tick service with higher price for iPhone users
Those willing to pay $8 on the web or $11 a month via Apple’s app store will get more …
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What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges
Scientists are hoping ‘historical biomolecules’ on a 15th-century missive written by V…
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Will drone deliveries be widely available in Australia soon? – video
'It was just like Uber Eats,' says journalist Josh Butler after receiving gela…
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I wrote this column myself, but how long before a chatbot could do it for me? | John Naughton
The impressive and wildly popular ChatGPT is the latest instalment in a long-running d…
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Is this the end of TV? Broadcasters prepare for online-only switch
As ITVX launches and the BBC gets ready to stream not beam, will event viewing become …
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Concern as US media hit with wave of layoffs amid rise of disinformation
Wider economic uncertainty is behind cuts at companies including CNN, BuzzFeed and Gan…
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Small wonders: stunning exhibition celebrates artistry of model buildings
Supermodels, an extraordinary immersive show in London, uses animatronics and meticulo…
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried ‘willing to testify’ to Congress next week
Founder and former CEO says he could talk about what he thinks led to crash and ‘my ow…
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Elon Musk could lose world’s richest person title as Tesla value almost halves
Founder’s net worth down about $70bn after fall in electric car maker’s share price si…
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Women sue Twitter, claiming Musk layoffs unfairly targeted female staff
The proposed class-action lawsuit alleges that after the takeover, 57% of women were l…
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The inherent misogyny of AI portraits – Amelia Earhart rendered naked on a bed
The hugely popular Lensa AI app creates portraits based on image prompts, but users sa…
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Most convicted terrorists radicalised online, finds MoJ-backed study
Development of technology and tactics of groups like Islamic State have led to rise in…
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What does the Lensa AI app do with my self portraits and why has it gone viral?
Caitlin Cassidy gives Nino Bucci the full picture of the latest ‘magic avatar’ gener…
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Unsocial hours: the best video games to play in ‘goblin mode’
Draw the curtains, pull up your weighted blanket and hunker down with these cosy sims,…
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