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Technology

  • A person holding an iPhone showing the Google search engine

    Google
    Google investigated by UK watchdog over search dominance

    CMA to look at impact on consumers, businesses, advertisers and publishers, as well as collection of data
  • Man in suit looks to side

    TikTok
    Chinese officials reportedly discuss sale of TikTok in US to Elon Musk

  • illustration of everyday items and arrows to an iphone

    Reclaim your brain
    You don’t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device

  • Apple App Store icon

    Apple
    Apple dominates market with ‘total shutout’ of rivals, UK court hears

  • Zoe Williams

    Why I have finally quit Facebook (it’s not just about fact-checking)

    Zoe Williams
  • A sign informing people not to fly drones outside HMP High Down prison near Banstead in Surrey.

    Prisons
    Drones flying into jails in England and Wales are national security threat, says prisons watchdog

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News

  • Elon Musk

    Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics

  • Last week Elon Musk hosted a livestream on the platform with Alice Weidel in which he heaped praise on the anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin AfD co-leader

    How Elon Musk has meddled in European affairs

  • Amazon logo on building.

    Amazon dials back DEI programs ahead of Trump inauguration

  • Protester outside US supreme court holding placard urging justices to ‘Keep TikTok’.

    TikTok ban: supreme court appears inclined to uphold law that could see app barred in US – as it happened

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Privacy

  • A coder works on dark screen with digital interface around

    Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments

  • John Naughton

    Memo to Trump: US telecoms is vulnerable to hackers. Please hang up and try again

    John Naughton

    • Chinese hackers breach US treasury network, gain access to some files

    • US judge finds Pegasus spyware maker liable over WhatsApp hack

    • Why did China hack the world’s phone networks?

    • Many Americans’ cellphone data being hacked by China, official says

    • ‘Russia can turn the lights off’: how the UK is preparing for cyberwar

    • Alder Hey children’s hospital explores ‘data breach’ after ransomware claims

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Spotlight

  • Composite of Extremities Maze Runner gloves, Rab Ridgeline base layer, Sealskinz Hilgay socks, Merrell Morphlite Gore-Tex shoes, and Proviz backpack cover

    Winter running gear: our top training essentials to help you conquer the cold

  • protesters with a big sign

    ‘Don’t allow you to go to the bathroom’: big tech’s call center workers in Greece on strike

  • An image from Some of Tom's Typewriters

    ‘Like a big box of chocolates’: Tom Hanks puts his typewriters on display

  • A hand escaping a phone screen on a green background

    ‘I read 35 books this year!’: the Guardian readers who cut their phone use in 2024

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Opinion & analysis

  • An NBN Co technician during the installation of fibre-to-the-building connections in Sydney

    NBN’s $3bn fibre revamp is great news but don’t Australians now care more about price than higher speeds?

  • Commuters make their way across Waterloo Bridge in London

    Why Starmer and Reeves are pinning their hopes on AI to drive growth in UK

  • two men wearing suits shake hands

    Silicon Valley’s tycoons are bending the knee to Trump

  • Man on stage at conference

    Mark Zuckerberg’s end to Meta factchecking is a desperate play for engagement

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Games

  • Ballionaire pyramid

    Ballionaire review – addictive, pinball-inspired strategy game

    Make virtual millions in this deceptively simple game that’s all about bumpers and the luck of the bounce
  • A screenshot from the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4

    Resident Evil 4 at 20: the horror game that revitalised a genre

  • Grunn.

    Grunn review – part gardening sim, part survival horror thriller

  • Dreams on a Pillow game artwork

    ‘Talking about the Palestinian story was forbidden’: a developer’s struggle to make a game about the 1948 Nakba

  • Increasingly online … gamers are no longer interested in an IRL shopping experience.

    Boxed video game sales collapse in UK as digital revenues flatten

  • Keza MacDonald and friends celebrate New Year 2021 in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

    Replaying games from my past with my young children has been surreal – and transformative

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • Peter Kyle

    UK can be ‘AI sweet spot’: Starmer’s tech minister on regulation, Musk, and free speech

  • Keir Starmer

    Tech giants told UK online safety laws ‘not up for negotiation’

  • A side by side image showing a woman holding up a Mass Deportation Now sign and the other a image of Elon Musk

    Maga v Musk: Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy

  • wood sign that says 'Lupin Naturist Club' in white letters, by the side of a road

    A Silicon Valley nudist resort is on sale for $30m – but will its new owner ‘go textile’?

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Reviews

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    The best slow cookers for effortless homemade meals, tried and tested

  • ‘People who walk along the street staring at their phones are enemies of society’

    The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen review – smartphone nation

    • The 8 best electric blankets and heated throws – tried and tested to keep you toasty for less this winter

    • The 8 best video doorbells tried and tested – and Ring isn’t top

    • The 8 best e-readers, tried and tested – from Kindle to Kobo and beyond

    • Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be

    • The best robot vacuums to keep your home clean and dust free, tested by our expert

    • Meta Quest 3S review: the best bang for your buck in VR

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Devices

  • Amy Fleming holding out her arm to show the tracker on her wrist

    Wearables
    How I beat overwhelm: Tracking my heart rate left me feeling like a frustrated failure

  • illustration of everyday items and arrows to an iphone

    Smartphones
    You don’t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device

  • Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro review held in a hand showing the lockscreen.

    Tablets
    Apple iPad mini A17 Pro review: the best small tablet gets faster

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Composite images showing a hand holding a smartphone with fragmented and pixellated images of a woman

    ‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes – and the women fighting back

    • Elon Musk with Donald Trump

      Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation

    • A series of posts by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Threads social media app on a mobile phone screen

      Revisions of ‘hateful conduct’: what users can now say on Meta platforms

    • A man wearing glasses and a hat poses

      ‘It’s not just alerts, it’s a state of mind’: How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west

    • SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy rocket is launched at the company’s Boca Chica launchpad in Texas on 19 November.

      Why Elon Musk’s Starship rocket is beating Nasa in the space race

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