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  • From left, Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon

    Artificial intelligence
    James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

    The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence
  • composite image of screenshots from TikTok, showing vox pops and captioned images of presenters talking about politics

    Politics
    #ukpolitics: how the 2024 general election has played out on TikTok

  • Spectators watch a single's match on an outer court at Wimbledon

    Wimbledon 2024
    Competition employs AI to protect players from online abuse

  • The robots are coming! … AI is creeping into TV in a frightening way.

    Artificial intelligence
    ‘The disruption is already happening!’ Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?

  • Google’s data centre in the US.

    Explainer
    Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

  • a bald man smiles

    Amazon
    Jeff Bezos to sell $5bn of Amazon shares after stock hits record high

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News

  • A security guard next to a Meta sign showing the address 1 Hacker Way

    Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks

  • Google logo on building

    Google’s biotech company pulls out of Israel but says Gaza war not the reason

  • Man puts hands to face in front of purple background

    Elon Musk has won $56bn pay package despite judge ruling it void, Tesla argues

  • Bill Gates and Prince William listen to a delegate at a conference venue

    AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says

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Privacy

  • a woman plays the guitar

    Hackers leak alleged Taylor Swift ticket data to extort Ticketmaster

  • An NHS hospital ward

    NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider

    • UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

    • What does the London NHS hospitals data theft mean for patients?

    • Records on 300m patient interactions with NHS stolen in Russian hack

    • Eddie Redmayne says Warren Beatty offered to bail him out after email hack

    • Cyber-attack on London hospitals to take ‘many months’ to resolve

    • Why passwords still matter in the age of AI

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Spotlight

  • Professor Dali Kaafar, Professor and Executive Director of the Cyber Security Hub, School of Computing Future Communications Research Centre; Macquarie University. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Wednesday 3rd July 2024.

    Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers

  • Dog approaching a lamb

    ‘The collie was trying to herd the lamb – but failing’: Mark Aitken’s best phone picture

  • Kamala Harris laughs while holding mic

    #KHive: Kamala Harris memes abound after Joe Biden’s debate disaster

  • A car speeding past a '40' mph highway code sign painted on the tarmac

    ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI

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Opinion & analysis

  • Jensen Huang delivers a speech in Taipei, 2 June 2024: he is seen very small in the foreground in front of a black background with huge illustrated images of a robotic figure and moving mechanical joints behind him.

    Can AI boom drive Nvidia to a $4tn valuation despite investor doubt?

  • Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni talk while sat at a table

    Why the pope has the ears of G7 leaders on the ethics of AI

  • Young middle-aged white man with brown hair and a black collarless jacket on a stage with a blue digital background.

    Should Tesla pay Elon Musk $45bn? The shareholders will decide

  • Nils Pratley

    Is the Tesla board in charge of a public company or the Elon Musk fan club?

    Nils Pratley
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Games

  • ‘Viscerally satisfying’ … a player of FarmVille in 2008.

    FarmVille at 15: how a cutesy Facebook game shaped the modern internet

    On its 15th anniversary, the creators of FarmVille reflect on the compulsive cartoon farm sim that paved the way for a data-driven world
  • ‘I don’t want to traumatise my kids by slashing away at Elden Ring’s violent grotesqueries in front of them’.

    My secret to making time for video games

  • Don’t let your guard down … Kien.

    Kien, the most-delayed video game in history, released after 22 years

  • A scene from Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD.

    Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD review – the scariest surprise is the price

  • Positech's Democracy 4

    I simulated each UK party’s first years in government in a video game, and the results were awful

  • Nothing felt crafted or deliberate … a truck decorated with an ad for Pro Evolution 5.

    Jude Bellingham’s late stunner reminded me why Pro Evolution Soccer hit the target

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • Evgeny Morozov

    Silicon Valley wants unfettered control of the tech market. That’s why it’s cosying up to Trump

    Evgeny Morozov
  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

  • A side-by-side image of Sam Bankman-Fried, a young white man with poofy brown hair, and the outside of a cream, Tudor-style building painted with pink trim.

    Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

  • A woman, left, holds a yellow sign reading 'Not Invited' while a man beside her looks off to the side.

    Voters to weigh in on whether tech billionaires can build new California city

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Reviews

  • The ‘knife-edge’ business of digital recreation in Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving

  • Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

    • Zenbook Duo review: are two laptop screens better than one?

    • Beats Solo Buds review: Apple’s budget earbuds rock

    • Her Name Was Moviola review – ode to editing machine a geekgasm for analogue fans

    • Beats Solo 4 review: Apple headphones get Android-loving upgrade

    • Sonos Ace review: quality noise-cancelling headphones worth the wait

    • Google Pixel 8a review: new Android mid-range champion

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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

  • Dog approaching a lamb

    Smartphones
    ‘The collie was trying to herd the lamb – but failing’: Mark Aitken’s best phone picture

  • Asus Zenbook Duo 2024 review has two screens.

    Tablets
    Zenbook Duo review: are two laptop screens better than one?

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Cda-Anthropic-Claude, Toronto, Canada - 04 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (14524985f) A person uses a computer, which is displaying various elements of Anthropic's website for their "Claude" Artificial Intelligence product, in a photo illustration made in Toronto, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Cda-Anthropic-Claude, Toronto, Canada - 04 Jun 2024

    Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing

    • A psychedelic illustration of mouths and eyes and lines

      Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

    • The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple campus, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

      Does what happens on your iPhone still stay on your iPhone?

    • didgital heart

      Computer says yes: how AI is changing our romantic lives

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