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  • A collage of photographs of nature and attractions

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

    Our photo dumps used to be an aesthetic disruption. Now we’re just bending to the app’s will
  • A Tesla Model 3 charges at a station

    Tesla
    EV maker misses estimates for third-quarter deliveries amid stiff competition

  • File photo of the Facebook logo displayed on a smartphone

    Meta
    More than 9,000 scam Facebook pages deleted after Australians lose $43.4m to celebrity deepfakes

  • an illustration of a bird of prey in flight, with a digital-style grid overlaid atop it and squares highlighting some of its features eg face, claws, tail

    The long read
    Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world

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

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

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

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

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News

  • The OpenAi logo

    OpenAI raises $6.6bn in funding, is valued at $157bn

  • Illustration with logos for OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing

    French AI summit to focus on environmental impact of energy-hungry tech

  • Sam Altman in front of OpenAI logo

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

  • Tesla cars at the gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany

    Tesla home checks on workers on sick leave defended by boss in Germany

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Privacy

  • Hands on computer keyboard

    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

  • People carrying bags enter a portal shaped like a smartphone to a sunny meadow

    TikTok videos spread misinformation to new migrant community in New York City

  • Posters of Fox News personalities including Gretchen Carlson in 2016.

    Best podcasts of the week: How Fox News went from ailing network to rightwing behemoth

  • A person at home holds a red light device to their chin

    Does red light therapy work? These are the benefits and drawbacks

  • Comedian Chris Nguyen

    Chris Nguyen: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

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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
  • Elon Musk's X profile is pulled up on a smartphone

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

  • a side-by-side image of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

    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

  • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition screenshot.

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

    Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in
  • Two women and two men play Nintendo games on oversized controls

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

  • Tanuki: Pon’s Summer, showing an illustration or screenshot from the game of a large cartoonish animal in the grass in front of a building

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

  • Effortlessly captures a miserable mood … Apartment Story.

    Apartment Story review – an entrancing slice-of-life game about the monotony of modern adult life

  • Retro Bowl screenshot

    Forget open world adventures: Retro Bowl is so cute I want to cuddle it

    Dominik Diamond
  • Tomb Raider Remastered.

    Why video games are the new frontier for pop culture’s obsession with the past

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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

  • 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

  • An Amazon Echo Spot 2024 on a bedside table next to a lamp.

    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

    • Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold review: the ideal foldable phone design

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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 man sits in a cafe eating his lunch at a table, behind him is a hand-painted mural of a castle and the Adriatic

    Smartphones
    ‘Is this landscape fictitious or does it exist?’: Davide Pitetti’s best phone photo

  • 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

  • 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

    • An Amazon Web Services data center

      Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

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