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Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out? | John Naughton
The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digita…
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Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon
Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit w…
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Tesla sued for severe harassment of Black workers at California plant
Federal civil rights agency claims in lawsuit that employees were subjected to racist …
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Golf is the best video game ever – I just need to figure out why | Dominik Diamond
I hate real life golf – too many things can go wrong. So why do I love playing PGA Tou…
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Pushing Buttons: Why I’m mourning the death of the true arcade game
In this week’s newsletter: A trip to the Devon coast led me to visit some seaside arca…
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No need to send it back: Netflix posts its final DVDs to customers
Mail-based service has had a 25-year run in the US but the streaming business eclipsed…
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‘Can’t we have a funny joke?’ Why #girlmath is dividing TikTok
The lighthearted trend – using questionable numbers to justify indulgent purchases – h…
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‘I pulled my sock down and saw blood’: drivers for Amazon in US complain of dog attacks
Amazon considers its ‘Flex drivers’ independent contractors – meaning they’re not prom…
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Musk ditches X’s election integrity team ahead of key votes around world
News comes after EU says platform formerly known as Twitter has highest disinformation…
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TikTok videos on deadly bodybuilding drugs viewed 89m times by young people in UK
Report into toxic content aimed at young men finds drug use being promoted and risks d…
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EA Sports FC 24 review – new name, same ridiculously fun football sim
Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X; Electronic Arts The 24th game i…
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Meta pays £149m to break lease on central London office building
Landlord British Land says decision will knock earnings for six months to next March …
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X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is ‘extremely concerning’ ahead of Aus…
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A threat to Amazon and a test of the FTC: is this big tech’s antitrust reckoning?
At the core of the case is whether the company used its position to disadvantage rival…
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TechScape: AI-made images mean seeing is no longer believing
In this week’s newsletter: Why an AI-generated image of Tiananmen Square jumping up Go…
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Mortal Kombat 1 review – Johnny Cage and co return with the same old moves
Warner Bros; Nintendo Switch, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S Fans of the fighting game’s cas…
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Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?
His company managed billions in assets and made him one of the world’s richest people.…
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Making a monster: how to build a budget gaming PC without losing your mind
You will need time, space, fiddly components and patience – but it can be a deeply sat…
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No 10 worried AI could be used to create advanced weapons that escape human control
At global summit in UK, Rishi Sunak will highlight risk of criminals and terrorists us…
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Jabra Elite 10 review: comfy noise cancelling earbuds with spatial audio for all
Compact buds with solid battery life are boosted by Dolby surround sound for music and…
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Building in zero gravity: the race to create factories in space
Tech companies see big benefits in making drugs, harvesting stem cells and growing cry…
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Dan Gardner wanted to know when to go to the loo during films – so he built an app
The developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo br…
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A Roman solution to Raac’s ruin – is self-healing concrete the answer?
After recent building failures, researchers are looking to ancient materials for inspi…
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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech
In his new book, Technofeudalism, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing …
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An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT | Tim Adams
Authors have entered a war over words with OpenAI for using their books as ‘training’ …
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The east German town at the centre of the new ‘gold rush’ … for lithium
Refining the metal – which is essential for electric car batteries – in Europe would e…
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Waitrose turns to AI to create recipes for successful food products
The supermarket has used data from menus, online cuisine and social media posts to sha…
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The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows
Two years after tech trend that swept up artists and celebrities, researchers estimate…
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What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview
Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family …
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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review: excellent expansion enhances an overhauled game
CD Projekt RED; PC, PS5, Xbox The stylish RPG has undergone a radical transformation, …
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TikTok has matchmaking service for staff to play cupid for co-workers
Meet Cute on company’s intranet allows employees to advertise family and acquaintances…
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AI developing too fast for regulators to keep up, says Oliver Dowden
Deputy prime minister to urge UN general assembly to create international regulatory s…
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‘It’s an insult’: drivers react to Rishi Sunak’s electric car U-turn
Many feel decision to delay ban of petrol and diesel cars flies in face of environment…
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‘We remade it from a fan’s perspective’: the creators of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
As Square Enix gears up to release the second chapter of its FFVII Remake trilogy, the…
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Best podcasts of the week: The animal activist who went on trial for his ‘special bond’ with a dolphin
In this week’s newsletter: Hear the gripping, tragic yet funny story of Alan Cooper an…
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Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed US bridge
Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a Nort…
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Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report
Climate coalition cites Twitter’s lack of clear policies to stop incorrect information…
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Pushing Buttons: Forget Starfield – No Man’s Sky is still the space adventure where you are truly free
In this week’s newsletter: Maligned on its 2016 release, No Man’s Sky offers a richer,…
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The Isle Tide Hotel: like Wes Anderson directing a playable episode of Doctor Who
Brother and sister duo Grace and Harry Chadwick have followed in the footsteps of Char…
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Meta encryption plan will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’, says UK campaign
In Home Office initiative, survivors urge Mark Zuckerberg to rethink changes to Messen…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting…
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City watchdog ex-chair says he faced ‘political pressure’ to let in crypto firms
Charles Randell says some of the exchanges the FCA was pressed to allow to trade in th…
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Google DeepMind AI tool assesses DNA mutations for harm potential
AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disorde…
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Lies of P review – inventive Pinocchio RPG has a fiendish heart
PC, Xbox, PS5 This hack-and-slasher clings to its Soulsborne heritage too tightly, but…
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TechScape: The ‘smartphone era’ transformed the world – what will define the next decade?
In this week’s newsletter: It’s been ten years since the dawn of the iPhone age – and …
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Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees
Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m pos…
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Sadiq Khan says hundreds of thousands spent on anti-Ulez Twitter manipulation
Mayor of London expected to tell social media firms of campaign and urge them to ‘bear…
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Emoji dumping: how to say it’s over when you can’t be bothered with words
One in three online daters have been ditched by emoji. But what are the symbols that s…
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AI boom may not have positive outcome, warns UK competition watchdog
Risks include high prices as well as proliferation of false information, fraud and fak…
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iOS 17 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big updates
iPhone upgrade joined by watchOS 10 and iPadOS 17, adding new features to Apple’s mobi…
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The EU cable guys have tied down Apple, yet big tech is still bossing the Tories | John Naughton
The tech giant has bowed to European legislation with a USB-C connector on its new iPh…
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‘I couldn’t stop myself’: inside the 12-step program for internet addiction
Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous is based on the principles of AA, offering c…
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Free food and threats to bonuses: UK finance and tech firms fight working from home
Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of …
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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 preview: hands-on with the web-slinging duo
PlayStation 5 The storytelling is superb but Peter Parker and Miles Morales’s vastly e…
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TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
Irish data regulator says platform put 13- to 17-year-old users’ accounts on default p…
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Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks?
Greater Manchester police becomes latest entity to fall victim to this kind of hack T…
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Google to pay $93m in settlement over deceptive location tracking
Tech giant ‘continued to collect and store a user’s location data’ even if users turne…
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‘Dancing femininely is the most metal thing’: the young women turning Slipknot into feminist anthems
With videos that are part thirst trap, part protest, gen Z is changing the image of th…
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Best podcasts of the week: Chanté Joseph is back for another round of weekly pop culture chat
In this week’s newsletter: The Guardian’s own pop culture podcast is back again every …
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Pushing Buttons: Nour is more food art than video game – and it’s a deliciously surreal treat
In this week’s newsletter: Unconcerned with things like enemies or objectives, this ex…
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‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS
The government is about to award a £480m contract to build a vast new database of pati…
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Unity seeks to clarify new game engine charges amid outrage from developers
Games creators attack the fees, due for implementation in 2024, as company executive d…
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Twitter chaos after Elon Musk takeover may have violated privacy order, DoJ alleges
US Department of Justice questions compliance with FTC order on data security and priv…
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France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation exposure levels
Apple disputing tests by watchdog that showed radio frequency exposure was higher than…
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Game developers furious as Unity Engine announces new fees
Unity announces a ‘Runtime Fee’, which will charge developers each time a game using t…
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iPhone 15 launch: Apple adopts USB-C and boasts better cameras
Company dumps Lightning port, and has titanium sides and new 5x zoom for top models, p…
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The Many Pieces of Mr Coo review – a brief but fun burst of Spanish surrealism
PC (version played), PlayStation 4/5; Gammera Nest/Astrolabe Games Nacho Rodríguez’s p…
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Eight things we learned from the Elon Musk biography
Widespread access to world’s richest man allowed biographer Walter Isaacson to detail …
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How Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was written: ‘you start with sticky notes’
From consulting with military advisers on raid tactics to tailoring responses for diff…
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The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?
The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year – but i…
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Tech giants hold huge sway in matters of war, life and death. That should concern us all | Keir Giles
Elon Musk’s hindrance of a Ukraine attack via Starlink caused a row. But other firms h…
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The quest for Sky Skipper, the rarest Nintendo arcade machine in the world
How a dedicated collector rallied an international team to track down the long-forgott…
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Google goes to trial in biggest US challenge to tech power in decades
US justice department accuses Google of monopolizing search space in landmark case to …
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Sony WF-1000XM5 review: smaller, better-fitting earbuds are no longer outright best
Long battery life, great sound and solid noise-cancelling make for a good buy – but So…
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‘I log into a torture chamber each day’: the strain of moderating social media
As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clea…
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China troubles could upset Apple’s cart as it prepares to launch the iPhone 15
Geopolitics may affect sales in a big market – and customers may be annoyed by the new…
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From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters
The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age, offering all kinds of newsletter…
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Take it from someone who was on the internet at 10 years old: a ban won’t keep children off TikTok | Chris Stokel-Walker
This misguided Tory crackdown won’t keep kids off social media. The best solution is f…
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Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debate
Researchers identify sprawling bot network of 1,305 accounts active during Republican …
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Rage against the machine? Why AI may not mean the death of film
Technology is Hollywood’s current arch nemesis, but as exhibitors on Venice film festi…
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Musk ‘committed evil’ with Starlink order, says Ukrainian official
Ukrainian presidential adviser says deaths of civilians ‘the price of a cocktail of ig…
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How a decade of playing Final Fantasy XIV has helped me through life and motherhood
The popular MMO game has helped me deal with everything life brings. As I celebrate 10…
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A sign of the times: Australia moves towards digital statutory declarations
The federal government will accept electronic signatures and video link witnessing fro…
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Best podcasts of the week: A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign
In this week’s newsletter: Alice Levine and Matt Forde remember seven chaotic weeks in…
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