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Tesla investigated over funds ‘used to build secret Austin house for Elon Musk’
Reports suggest that plans for ‘Project 42’ included a glass structure that contained …
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Sea of Stars review – like a lost, late classic of the Super Nintendo era
PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PC; Sabotage Studio This homage to classic Jap…
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Best podcasts of the week: Meet the tech millionaires in search of eternal life
In this week’s newsletter: Psychologist Aleks Krotoski investigates the Silicon Valley…
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AI-powered drone beats human champion pilots
Swift AI used technique called deep reinforcement learning to win 15 out of 25 races a…
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Fish doorbells! Historic sandwiches! 50 of the weirdest, most wonderful corners of the web – picked by an expert
Can’t face another minute thinking about war, inflation or the climate catastrophe? Gi…
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Gamescom report: can the ‘forever game’ endure?
Live service games that try to monopolise attention put immense pressure on developers…
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Meta closes nearly 9,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Chinese ‘Spamouflage’ foreign influence campaign
Company says users targeted in Australia, UK, US and elsewhere by political spam netwo…
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Blue moon August 2023: how to take a good photograph of the supermoon tonight on your phone or camera
Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photograph…
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A moment that changed me: I stopped posting funny stories about my daughter – and she began to trust me again
For seven years I was a compulsive ‘sharent’, chronicling my daughter’s life on social…
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Amazon CEO tells staff ‘it’s probably not going to work out’ unless they visit office three days a week
Almost 30,000 workers signed petition against return-to-office mandate in May Amazon’…
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Corgis and cats with crossbows: Party Animals wants to be your new Saturday night video game
The head of Recreate Games talks about the inspiration behind the studio’s forthcoming…
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Through depression, illness and a heck of a birthday party, video games have been our family’s glue | Dominik Diamond
We’ve lived in more places than we can remember, but home is where the games are I ha…
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‘Be flexible, imaginative and brave’: experts give career advice for an AI world
Artificial intelligence is on track to shake up work. So what should the next generati…
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The business of silence: is there a hidden cost to noise cancelling?
Headphone and earplug sales are booming, but individual efforts to turn down the volum…
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‘They would not listen to us’: inside Biden’s troubled $53bn chip plant
Taiwanese microchip manufacturer TSMC blames struggle to build Phoenix plant on skille…
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New worlds of adventure: the most exciting video games of autumn 2023
From trips into the vast universe of Starfield, or the Islamic golden age, to a cuddly…
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunk review – graffiti skateboard party like it’s 1999
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC; Team Reptile This spiritual successor to…
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How to stay cool without air con – and help take some heat off the planet
Research suggests UK homes are uniquely unprepared to cope with rising global temperat…
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Everyone on LinkedIn is absolutely crushing it – or so it seems
LinkedIn is not a place to be honest. It’s a place to sell your products, your service…
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Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: ‘UFOs should be the subject of mainstream inquiry. Science must bring clarity’
The Harvard scientist on his search for alien technology, academic jealousy and why we…
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Trump’s return to Twitter solidifies a sharp right turn for Musk’s platform
By posting his mugshot, Trump joins Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene in transfo…
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Lost in a crowd: why phone signal is still so scarce at UK music festivals
Big events place a strain on networks but when 6G arrives, many of today’s problems wi…
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Why did chip-maker Nvidia’s profits soar and is it living in a tech bubble?
Firm’s relentless focus on AI paid off in spades, with analysts optimistic of further …
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Gifs aren’t cool any more – and now I feel very, very old | Joel Snape
I shrugged off my dodgy knee and the grey in my beard. But if my beloved animated grap…
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Best podcasts of the week: Alan Partridge solves the culture wars, grandparenting and more
In this week’s newsletter: Steve Coogan’s presenter turned podcaster re-enters the stu…
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Facebook groups exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, study shows
Charity Full Fact finds more than 1,200 false posts on topics from deadly snakes to se…
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Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions
US-based semiconductor association claims Chinese tech firm has acquired at least two …
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Hate sharing a plane? You’ll love the flying scooter
If inventor Franky Zapata can make it work, the Airscooter will be the ‘personal flyin…
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Looking for a new job? Have you tried Tinder?
Remember when dating apps were just for love and sex? Now they’re all about networking…
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‘Like going to Glastonbury’: gamescom boosts festival feel to draw gamers
Other key conventions may have hit hurdles, but Cologne’s annual games jamboree has hi…
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Game over: voice of Mario retiring after three decades, Nintendo announces
Charles Martinet was the original voice of the Italian plumber, but is now ‘stepping b…
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‘The office is for socializing’: how work from home has revolutionized work
Even as some firms are mandating workers come into the office, work from home has perm…
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Microsoft submits new Activision Blizzard deal to UK regulator
CMA opens new investigation into acquisition as tech firm offers to sell cloud gaming …
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Customer data used for unwanted romantic contact, UK poll shows
Almost one in three people aged 18-34 have been messaged by staff after giving persona…
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‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier
While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too ‘woke’, experts argu…
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‘Ahead of its time’: wooden car goes under the hammer in Bristol
Hustler DIY kit car was crafted by former Rolls-Royce engineer and school woodwork tea…
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Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect
China is the world’s biggest gaming market, where a culture of creativity has flourish…
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Left without emails by Virgin Media? After our report, you tell us ‘Me too’
More Consumer Champions readers share their frustrating experiences of the email glitc…
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No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy
The elderly, the poor and the unbanked are among the marginalised groups being exclude…
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Readers reply: which person has had the greatest impact on the course of the 21st century so far?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects r…
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Twitch to provide new blocking powers to combat online abuse
Users on the platform used mainly by gamers will be able to stop others viewing their …
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The basic, better and best mobile phone options for kids
The lowdown on handsets, networks and parental controls, if your child is ready for a …
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Blocking feature to be removed from former Twitter platform X, says Musk
Loss of protective feature may bring it into conflict with safety guidelines on App St…
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Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers
‘This screws us royally,’ says one disgruntled iiNet user as internet service provider…
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AI can shape society for the better – but humans and machines must work together | D Fox Harrell
Collaboration rather than command-and-control is key to creating culturally and ethica…
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare III ready for action
New missions, a fresh 3v3v3 mode and an update of the popular zombie killing side game…
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Google DeepMind testing ‘personal life coach’ AI tool
AI experts cite ethical concerns over relationships humans may develop with such chatb…
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‘I apologise for the confusion’: travel firm Tui launches AI tour guide
Guardian test highlights ‘experimental’ nature of ChatGPT service being made available…
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‘Trapped on an oil rig with an unknowable horror’: Still Wakes the Deep is a dark 70s throwback
The makers of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture return with a story about drilling down …
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Creepily customized dishes and facial recognition: how might AI change fine dining?
Artificial intelligence could take personalized service a new, possibly sinister level…
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One man and his dog: Summerhill turns shepherding into a video game puzzle
Artist and designer Harry Nesbitt explains how his game pays homage to a countryside p…
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Why Red Dead Redemption’s return could be another rerelease gone wrong
I’ve been waiting to replay this taut, sometimes beautiful western since I binged it y…
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Elon Musk won’t fight Mark Zuckerberg – because he knows he will lose | Hamilton Nolan
America’s richest and most cowardly man, Musk, proposed an idiotic cage-match, then ca…
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Twitter appears to delay links by five seconds to sites Elon Musk dislikes
When content posted from critical news outlets and competitor apps was clicked, it ope…
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Dating at the end of the world: in Eternights, even the apocalypse can’t stand in the way of love
A dating-app meet goes wrong at the beginning of this action game when the world as we…
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Will AI steal my job? Maybe – but here are some possible new opportunities
The rise of AI will destroy jobs – but also create them. And if you didn’t nab that £7…
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‘Driverless cars are the hardest problem you could want to solve’ – Oxa’s Gavin Jackson
The head of the UK tech startup is as passionate about self-driving ‘autonomy’ as Elon…
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‘Are you kidding, carjacking?’: The problem with facial recognition in policing
When a pregnant Black woman was falsely arrested, she fought back. Here’s what happene…
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Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical review – a mythical gig where you shape the songs
PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Switch, PC; Summerfall Studios This role-player in which you ha…
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Tens of thousands of digital grooming crimes recorded during wait for online safety bill
NSPCC says tech firms and MPs must back the bill after data from UK police forces show…
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Gran Turismo review – game boy turned real-life motor-sport whiz kid pushes the right button
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s true-life tale is unable to swerve the cliches ye…
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Levelling up: how Gabrielle Zevin’s gaming novel became the book of the summer
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow overtook titles by David Walliams and Colleen Hoo…
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Amazon delays rule change for some UK sellers who warned they could go bust
One marketplace firm says Amazon is only ‘delaying the pain’ of having to wait a week …
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 review: the most powerful folding phone-tablet
Lighter, slicker, gapless folder has great multitasking software and rapid chip – but …
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‘Into brain and the heart’: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan’s teenagers
Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing’s information war agains…
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‘The night is literally in my hands’: what it’s like to attend an acid house rave – in virtual reality
Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pur…
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Can Britain recreate a microchip industry worth its salt?
UK governments let processor manufacturing drift overseas for years. Now Covid and war…
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AI could have bigger impact on UK than Industrial Revolution, says Dowden
Deputy PM says technology may aid faster government decisions – but warns of massive h…
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Musk says proposed Zuckerberg cage fight to be held at ‘epic location’ in Italy
X owner in talks with government over historic site for event – though Colosseum and R…
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AI watch: from architects’ assistants to writers’ rivals
This week in artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is either going to save …
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‘There’s no such thing as a neutral algorithm’: the existential AI exhibition confronting Sydney
Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Atmospheric Memory allows visitors to interact with gene…
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How does it feel to live without a smartphone? ‘Almost spiritual’
For most, giving up a smartphone in 2023 would be an almost inconceivable inconvenienc…
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A playful angle on global heating: Wood and Weather
Offer a wooden city a helping hand in this beguiling Australian climate puzzler If yo…
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Sword of the Sea channels surfing, spirituality and Shadow of the Colossus
Surf across an ever-shifting ocean of sand and battle giant leviathans in the latest g…
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Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much
Notice sent to employees who were not in office at least three times a week, after oth…
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Meet the artists reclaiming AI from big tech – with the help of cats, bees and drag queens
AI’s potential is huge and terrifying. But a new generation of artists is starting to …
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: a big screen inside and out
More refined flip phone gets better screen on the outside, gapless hinge and faster ch…
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Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs
Early stage talks are expected to include a potential tool fans could use to make AI-g…
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Pushing Buttons: Why the closure of Disney’s Star Wars hotel isn’t the end of immersive gaming
The $350 million Galactic Starcruiser will shut this year – but experiences that combi…
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AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa
Forget ‘AI doomerism’ hype over ChatGPT, big tech’s colonial attitude lets hateful ele…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 review – awe-inspiring D&D rendition is a towering landmark
PC, Mac, PS5; Larian Expanding on the basic role playing structure with seemingly limi…
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‘Star Trek without the manifest destiny’: Saltsea Chronicles, a gently radical vision of the future
Creative director Hannah Nicklin explains how the narrative adventure game offers a fa…
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Can a bra detect breast cancer? This Nigerian entrepreneur thinks so
An aunt’s death led Kemisola Bolarinwa to develop a wearable device that can pick up N…
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