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    Buyer’s guides
    The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

    Looking for a new iPhone, or a good deal on a refurbished handset? Our expert has assessed and rated the current crop of Apple smartphones
  • Composite of inventions, including lying down desk, future piano and cookie cake

    Patents
    Flatpack coffins and robot dogs: patents applications show UK inventions of 2023

  • Dave Winer, pioneer of the blogosphere, speaking in 2019.

    The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted

    John Naughton
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    Meta
    Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound

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    Telegram
    Far-right extremists flee from Telegram to SimpleX over privacy features

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    Social media
    Dump, post, repeat: how Instagram became a social media junkyard

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News

  • An image of Elon Musk sitting with his fingers interlocked

    Buttigieg counters Musk claim of Fema blocking Starlink from hurricane relief

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    Musk’s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known – report

  • several people play video games on computers at an event

    Epic Games accuses Samsung and Google of scheme to block rivals

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    OpenAI shift to for-profit company may lead it to cut corners, says whistleblower

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Privacy

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    Russia’s FSB protected Evil Corp gang that carried out Nato cyber-attacks

  • Moira Donegan

    The leaked dossier on JD Vance is revealing in all the things it doesn’t say

    Moira Donegan

    • Justice department charges Iranian operatives in Trump campaign hack

    • Trump campaign’s suspected Iranian hack may still be happening

    • Iran sent hacked Trump documents to Biden campaign, FBI says

    • Russia accused of trying to influence US voters through online campaign

    • Sweden warns of heightened risk of Russian sabotage

    • The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?

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Spotlight

  • box of different grey, brown and yellow mushrooms

    ‘VCs need their money back’: why sustainable startups struggle to fix our broken food system

  • Sheridan Smith stars in The Margate Murders.

    Best podcasts of the week: Sheridan Smith’s dangerously bingeable Margate murder mystery

  • A collage illustration of a human face and newspaper clippings to represent the challenge of tackling fake news.

    TechScape: Why the fake news confidence trap could be your downfall

  • Musau Mutisya uses the PlantVillage app to diagnose a maize plant on his farm in Matungulu sub-county in Machakos county, Kenya, on September 17, 2024. Photo by Stephen Mukhongi

    High tech, high yields? The Kenyan farmers deploying AI to increase productivity

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Opinion & analysis

  • Mark Zuckerberg, wearing a black and white graphic tee, sits in a chair onstage and smiles

    Zuckerberg Augustus: Meta’s emperor rebrands in new clothes

  • Rhik Samadder

    What’s so funny about getting an AI app to give you a roasting?

    Rhik Samadder
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    A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis

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    Trump and Musk’s talk of a cabinet job is all hot air, but we shouldn’t ignore it

    Brian Merchant
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Games

  • Star Wars Outlaws

    ‘We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music’: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws

    Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys’ chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear
  • Throne and Liberty video game artwork

    Otters in hats and magical staffs: all you need to know about Throne and Liberty, Amazon’s new free fantasy game

  • Starfield: Shattered Space screenshot.

    Starfield: Shattered Space review – much Va’ruun for improvement

  • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition screenshot.

    Age of Empires II at 25: the strategy game that inspired a generation of historians

  • Two women and two men play Nintendo games on oversized controls

    Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum

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    Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live and kicking

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Inside Silicon Valley

  • John Naughton

    By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?

    John Naughton
  • Tim Cook

    Apple reveals iPhone 16 and ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI features

  • John Naughton

    Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?

    John Naughton
  • Chris Stokel-Walker

    Arresting Telegram’s Pavel Durov could be a smart move. Tech bosses care more about themselves than you

    Chris Stokel-Walker
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Reviews

  • A pair of Apple AirPods 4 earbuds on a review table.

    Apple AirPods 4 review: better sound, now with noise cancelling

  • Elon Musk waits outside Arnold Hall before speaking to cadets on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO, USA. Chief executive officer of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla and space manufacturer SpaceX, Musk topped Forbes magazine's 2022 list of The World's Billionaires with an estimated net worth of $219 billion, making him the world's wealthiest documented individual. (Apex MediaWire Photo by Trevor Cokley/U.S. Air Force)<br>2JACPYH Elon Musk waits outside Arnold Hall before speaking to cadets on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO, USA. Chief executive officer of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla and space manufacturer SpaceX, Musk topped Forbes magazine's 2022 list of The World's Billionaires with an estimated net worth of $219 billion, making him the world's wealthiest documented individual. (Apex MediaWire Photo by Trevor Cokley/U.S. Air Force)

    Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter review – the ego has landed, just not on Mars

    • Echo Spot review: Amazon’s Alexa takes aim at the bedroom

    • Garmin Fenix 8 review: best adventure watch becomes smarter

    • Google Pixel 9 review: a good phone overshadowed by great ones

    • Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac review – Musk’s Twitter takeover

    • What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates review – has Tom Hanks really joined his secret lizard society?

    • Cyborg: A Documentary review – man who ‘hears’ colours is leading transhuman age

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Devices

  • Garmin Fenix 8 review - showing an analogue watch face sat on a blue cutting mat.

    Wearables
    Garmin Fenix 8 review: best adventure watch becomes smarter

  • A black man standing on a beach holding red, yellow and white balloons in front of him, with a white man standing behind him with yellow and red balloons obscuring his face

    Smartphones
    ‘It makes me feel light, happy and free’: Justin Attah Mensah’s best phone picture

  • An Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max in a person's hand

    Tablets
    iOS 18 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big updates

  • Emma Beddington

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

    Emma Beddington

In depth

  • Abigail Bobkowski, Yihong Yuan and Jack Quinlan, students at the University of Sydney who are using generative AI.

    ChatGPT has become the ‘best teammate’ to these Sydney university students – but is there a limit?

    • Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.

      TechScape: Meet the scrappy tech company taking on Slack

    • A group of girls on staring down on their phone

      ‘It’s not a solution for teen girls like me’: Instagram’s new under-18 rules met with skepticism

    • A teenage boy reading a book crossed legged with cartoon emojis falling on him from a smartphone floating above his head

      Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it

    • Can AI finally replicate humans by having ‘thoughts’ … Rodin’s The Thinker.

      OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’ – and I have thoughts

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