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The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more
This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding pl…
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‘We wanted to change the norm on smartphone use’: grassroots campaigners on a phone-free childhood
Most UK children have their own phone by the age of 11. But what if we didn’t give the…
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AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London
Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO 2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new…
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The hardest thing about modern sports games? Navigating EA’s customer support
My dreams of reliving the good old days of NHL 94 on the Sega Mega Drive were thwarted…
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AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says
Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outwe…
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Elon Musk has won $56bn pay package despite judge ruling it void, Tesla argues
Company says in court filing Musk is entitled to vast payout because shareholders vote…
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‘Suddenly I can play anybody’: what it’s like to act in a video game
The stars of YouTube D&D series Natural Six Harry McEntire, Doug Cockle and Ben St…
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Relive (and relitigate) celebrity courtroom scandals, with Stacey Dooley and friends
The presenter and comedian Larry Dean dive into infamous legal fights in Famously … On…
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Number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets, study finds
Introduction of new syllabus may be reason number of girls taking subject more than ha…
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The game design secrets of Elden Ring’s Hidetaka Miyazaki
In this week’s newsletter: FromSoftware’s president and the director of the popular fa…
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‘It’s impossible to play for more than 30 minutes without feeling I’m about to die’: lawn-mowing games uncut
Lawn Mowing Simulator joins a long line of popular simulation games of real-life activ…
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Tesla recalls majority of Cybertrucks for fourth time
Windshield wiper and trunk bed trim problems cause more delays in the truck’s promised…
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‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills
Amazon pledged to create ‘Earth’s safest place to work’. Three warehouse workers speak…
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Battle lines redrawn as Argentina’s lithium mines ramp up to meet electric car demand
Mining companies accused of colonial ‘divide and rule’ tactics in their pursuit of the…
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‘It’s important for us to be happy’: Astro Bot, the most joyous game on PlayStation 5
Team Asobi’s Nicolas Doucet on creating PlayStation 5’s next big game – and, he hopes,…
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Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing
In this week’s newsletter: If you don’t like chatbots popping up everywhere, get ready…
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Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
European Commission finds iPhone maker broke new laws designed to protect smaller comp…
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Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot
GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researche…
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Zenbook Duo review: are two laptop screens better than one?
Asus machine is best yet at being a laptop on the go and a dual-screen productivity be…
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Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems
AI that purports to read our feelings may enhance user experience but concerns over mi…
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Cyber-attack hobbles car dealers across US and Canada for third day in a row
CDK said in a letter to its 15,000 customers that it ‘did not have an estimated time f…
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‘I have always felt the world was a harsh place’: Elden Ring’s Hidetaka Miyazaki on why he may never stop making games
As Elden Ring’s much-anticipated final expansion is released, its designer gives a gli…
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14 unusual video games to discover in 2024
We pick through the best of the summer showcases to find interesting games to look out…
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Best podcasts of the week: Is Bruce Springsteen an unlikely queer icon? Two fans makes the case
A pair of ‘queer nerds’ obsessed with the American rock hero break down his legacy in …
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‘You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop’: Signal boss hits out at government encryption-busting moves
A ‘legitimate grievance’ with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to u…
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New female-led Zelda game announced by Nintendo to surprise of fans
The Legend of Zelda: The Echoes of Wisdom will allow players to play as Princess Zelda…
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Amazon UK workers begin vote on gaining union recognition for first time
Officials will arrive at tech firm’s West Midlands site on Wednesday to begin a legall…
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McDonald’s ends AI drive-thru trial as fast-food industry tests automation
Companies have touted AI as future of the industry, but technology has also resulted i…
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From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
The University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but…
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Wedding wars! How photographers took over – and vicars fought back
While once there would be a lone photographer taking pictures of the happy couple, now…
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Blumhouse comes to video games with six different indie horror projects
In LA last week, horror production company Blumhouse announced that it was entering th…
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Balance effects of AI with profits tax and green levy, says IMF
Governments should use fiscal policies to atone for technology-related carbon emission…
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Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back
The Guardian reveals FTX trustees, in charge after the CEO’s downfall, allege payments…
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How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project | John Naughton
A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to hu…
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Computer says yes: how AI is changing our romantic lives
Artificial intelligence is creating companions who can be our confidants, friends, the…
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Reading, writing and … disinformation: should schoolchildren be taught media literacy like maths?
Less than half of Australian children and teens think they can tell real news stories …
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Russian ties and cheap tech: G7 leaders unequivocal in criticism of China
Concerns set out over supply of materials with military applications, and impact of su…
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‘I felt I was talking to him’: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?
As growing numbers of people turn to grieftech, some are disturbed by its possible con…
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Star Wars: Hunters review – the force is not that strong in this one
Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android; Zynga/Lucasfilm Games Essentially Overwatch with wookie…
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Jon Stewart confronts corruption, Trump and more in his new, newsy show
The longtime Daily Show host takes his satirical style to podcasting with The Weekly S…
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Should Tesla pay Elon Musk $45bn? The shareholders will decide
CEO claims he is winning investor votes by ‘wide margins’ but it is unclear if court w…
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US settles for $4.47bn with now bankrupt crypto firm Terraform Labs
Crypto firm was found liable for defrauding investors who lost nearly $40bn when its t…
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Is the Tesla board in charge of a public company or the Elon Musk fan club? | Nils Pratley
If Musk is awarded an astronomic $56bn pay award for a second time, it will amount to …
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Is my Samsung laptop not all it’s cracked up to be?
My Galaxy Book 360 from Currys developed screen cracks while it was just sitting on a …
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‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap
Wikiesfera is one of a handful of groups around world trying to ‘make women visible’ o…
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Why passwords still matter in the age of AI
As Apple’s new Passwords app tries to solve our identity crisis, why are we still prov…
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Apple brings ChatGPT to Siri as it debuts ‘Apple Intelligence’ at WWDC 2024
New features and deal with OpenAI presented at conference marks change in focus for te…
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Beats Solo 4 review: Apple headphones get Android-loving upgrade
Solid sound, 50 hours of battery life, spatial audio and cross-platform features eleva…
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Standup and TikToker Abi Clarke: ‘Why did I get into comedy? Attention!’
The social media star on performing to silent audiences, turning spite into success an…
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Did you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?
The designs behind practical joke toys Earlier today I set you these two problems abo…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 first look – 300GB of spies, zombies and Margaret Thatcher
Preview of this autumn’s new edition promises fresh missions in the service of US powe…
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Perfect Dark, Indiana Jones and a new Gears of War: all the new games from the Xbox Games Showcase
In the middle of a troubled year for Xbox, Microsoft showed a packed slate of games fo…
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BT left my blind father without a panic button
It didn’t work after it switched his landline to digital without warning My 101-year-…
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Come on, feel the noise: how I unplugged my headphones and reconnected with the world
Worried she was missing out, Ella Glover took off her headphones for a month and redis…
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Animal Well – beautifully wrought indie underground adventure
Billy Basso; Bigmode; PC, PlayStation, Switch A shimmering subterranean world reveals …
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‘Almost everyone supports Labour’: why 2024 isn’t the TikTok election
Users are 31% more likely to vote left than people of the same age and background who …
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‘They give us liberty with less anxiety’: A teenager, a parent and a teacher on smartphones for under-14s | panel
After plans to make St Albans the first smartphone-free city for children under 14, ou…
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Civilization 7 and more announced at Summer Game Fest
The latest title in the long-running strategy series was the biggest reveal at an even…
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Uber and Lyft made a deal to raise drivers’ wages. It was another victory for big tech | Edward Ongweso
Minneapolis cracked a deal with the companies, but it preserves integral parts of thei…
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Elon Musk may ‘step back’ if shareholders reject $56bn pay package, Tesla chair warns
Robyn Denholm says electric carmaker’s CEO could spend his time elsewhere if biggest p…
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How to spot a deepfake: the maker of a detection tool shares the key giveaways
Siwei Lyu of the DeepFake-o-meter explains how to tell when photos, videos and audio a…
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Not guilty: how tech mogul Mike Lynch’s fortunes soared, fell – and rose again
A jury of Californians acquitted the Autonomy founder, who on trial tried to show that…
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Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content
Ferras Hamad claims in lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the …
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Playing Kafka review – a well-intentioned but sanitised attempt at adapting the unadaptable
PC; Charles Games The forking paths and opaque traps of his writings might sound amen…
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Internet addiction alters brain chemistry in young people, study finds
Changes in multiple neural networks can result in further addictive tendencies and neg…
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Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says
EU commissioner Vera Jourová says tech firms must hire staff versed in legal and histo…
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From beef noodles to bots: Taiwan’s factcheckers on fighting Chinese disinformation and ‘unstoppable’ AI
Taiwan is the target of more disinformation from abroad than any other democracy, acco…
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Sonos Ace review: quality noise-cancelling headphones worth the wait
Company’s long-awaited headphones deliver top sound, long battery life, supreme comfor…
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The best alarm clocks to make sure you wake up and don’t go back to sleep, if you have ADHD
Neurodivergent people can struggle with timekeeping. Don’t rely on your phone, try one…
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‘Africa has zero PR in the west’: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless
Charity Ekezie has made it her mission to educate naive westerners about her continent…
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If Fifa is about to make an EA Sports FC competitor, that’s great news for gamers
In this week’s newsletter: Fifa will reportedly team up with 2K games to make its riva…
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Wax Heads, the record-shop video game that channels High Fidelity
Far from a business sim, players act as tastemaker for a litany of lovable oddballs th…
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The Guardian view on social media harms: the tech giants must be more open | Editorial
The online safety bill was a start, but campaigners are right to demand more, especial…
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Why health trackers can push you off the road to wellness
As we know more about our bodies, from wearable tech to data feedback, so our health a…
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‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?
The Tories and Labour are forking out more than ever on social media ads, but going vi…
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Live Nation investigating data breach of its US Ticketmaster unit
Cybercrime group ShinyHunters said it had stolen data of 500m customers of concert pro…
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Google to refine AI-generated search summaries in response to bizarre results
After new feature tells people to eat rocks or add glue to pizza sauce, company to res…
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