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Technology

  • A visual representation of bitcoin

    Explainer
    What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price?

    Process has coincided with a rise in price in the past and is due to take place again on Saturday
  • A boy aged four or five plays intently with a smartphone at a table at home

    Smartphones
    Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a mobile, data shows

  • Tech illustrations in Poland - 4 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14419342d) In this photo illustration a WhatsApp logo is displayed on a smartphone with cyber security symbol on the background. Tech illustrations in Poland - 4 Apr 2024

    WhatsApp
    Terror watchdog condemns company for lowering UK users’ minimum age to 13

  • A robot-powered fast food kitchen.

    ‘Eat the future, pay with your face’
    My dystopian trip to an AI burger joint

  • neopets

    Neopets
    How the nostalgic revival tripled users in six months

  • a bike, a tennis racket, a stone and a ball and graphene

    Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel
    Could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?

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News

  • silver chunky car

    Tesla recalls nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal

  • a man speaks in front of a screen that says "mixed reality" "AI" and "smart glasses"

    Meta steps up AI battle with OpenAI and Google with release of Llama 3

  • Protesters demand Google end cloud contract with Israel<br>A counter-protester holding an Israeli flag walks into the parking lot near a protest at Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, U.S. on April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino

    Google fires 28 staff after protest against firm’s contract with Israeli government

  • FILE PHOTO: Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in Beijing<br>FILE PHOTO: Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk gets in a Tesla car as he leaves a hotel in Beijing, China May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang//File Photo

    Tesla asks shareholders to back $56bn pay for Elon Musk rejected by judge

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Privacy

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    FBI chief says Chinese hackers have infiltrated critical US infrastructure

  • John Naughton

    One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack

    John Naughton

    • China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns

    • US reprimands Microsoft for security failures that allowed Chinese hack

    • At least a dozen Westminster insiders targeted in WhatsApp phishing attack

    • Western governments struggle to coordinate response to Chinese hacking

    • Why didn’t New Zealand impose sanctions on China?

    • Hackers obtain patient data from NHS Dumfries and Galloway

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Spotlight

  • What happens when you ‘buy a cheap island’ off Nicaragua and invite a camera crew? Alice Levine investigates.

    Best podcasts of the week: How one woman’s private paradise turned into her own personal hell

  • The text AI assistants spit out is ineffably generated … ChatGPT.

    TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

  • Searching for the meaning of life … Harold Halibut.

    As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game

  • a child uses a laptop

    Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills

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Opinion & analysis

  • Google logo and the words ‘artificial Intelligence’

    If costs force Google to charge for AI, competitors will cheer

  • Elon Musk

    How much is Elon Musk to blame for Tesla sales slip?

  • Eva Wiseman

    Banning phones in schools is just another ploy to distract us

    Eva Wiseman
  • A person holding a phone screen which has the word 'Fortnite' displayed on it

    The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple

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Games

  • Monument Valley 2.

    ‘I was trying to create the sound of a really warm hug’: the poignant story behind Monument Valley 2’s music

    Todd Baker composed the soundtrack for the indie puzzler as he was living through the loss of his mother. On the series’ 10th anniversary, he reflects on the experience
  • Death is frequent, and funny … Reigns Beyond.

    Reigns Beyond review – sci-fi silliness meets rock band road trip

  • Ella Purnell, the vault-leaving protagonist of the TV series.

    Pushing Buttons: The Fallout series doesn’t just look right – it feels like it was made by gamers, too

  • Searching for the meaning of life … Harold Halibut.

    As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game

  • Todd Howard, director of the Fallout game series, and Jonathan Nolan, director of the Fallout TV show.

    ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’: Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout

  • neopets

    How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • A woman wearing augmented-reality goggles, touching the 'screen' at the foreground of the image

    Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?

  • Derek Shaw

    Derek Shaw obituary

  • American tech journalist and author Kara Swisher, known for her newly released "Burn Book," poses for a portrait in Washington, DC, on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

    ‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech

  • woman speaking at a lectern

    Crypto Super Pac spends $10m on Katie Porter attack ads in California race

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Reviews

  • Nothing Ear a review earbuds visible through the transparent lid of their charging case on a table.

    Nothing Ear (a) review: cheaper, smaller, longer-lasting earbuds

  • Fairphone Fairbuds review earbuds sitting on top of their charging case.

    Fairphone Fairbuds review: ethically made earbuds with replaceable batteries

    • Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 review: best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds

    • Apple MacBook Air M3 review: the laptop to beat

    • Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review – the deep roots of AI

    • A Million Days review – low-budget sci-fi thriller asks if we should trust AI with our survival

    • The Lie Detectives: Trump, US politics and the disinformation damage done

    • Nothing Phone 2a review: a standout budget Android

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Devices

  • A jumper displaying an electronic message

    Wearables
    Wearable tech: how the human body can help power the future of smart textiles

  • A boy aged four or five plays intently with a smartphone at a table at home

    Smartphones
    Quarter of UK’s three- and four-year-olds own a smartphone, data shows

  • The inside tablet screen of the Honor Magic V2.

    Tablets
    Honor Magic V2 review: exquisite hardware let down by software

  • Emma Beddington

    Internet of things
    I am being terrorised by my robot vacuum cleaner

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Cyborg sings into a microphone

    Suno AI can generate power ballads about coffee – and jingles for the Guardian. But will it hurt musicians?

    • Deepfake imagery is getting harder to discern, even by experts.

      TechScape: Could AI-generated content be dangerous for our health?

    • Teenage girl lays on her bed looking at her phone

      ‘Things I’m ashamed to admit’: TikTok trend driving new level of oversharing

    • Collage of well-known AI-generated hoax images

      ‘Inceptionism’ and Balenciaga popes: a brief history of deepfakes

    • A human face with eyes shut and computer-generated lines over the top showing biometric identification.

      ‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?

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