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  • Caitlin Cassidy stands against a brick wall

    Social media
    I turned off my algorithm for 24 hours. Is this how social media used to be?

  • a courtroom sketch of a lawyer speaking in front of people

    Huawei
    China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens

  • A Google Pixel 11 Pro smartphone displaying its home screen with app icons stands upright on a stand.

    Review
    Pixel 11 Pro: Google’s best pocket camera goes customisable

  • The Instagram app on a mobile phone screen

    Social media
    Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world

  • Two men sitting on a stage speaking, with one gesturing as he talks.

    AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers

  • A court building with a US flag flying in front of it

    New Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated testimony

  • A blue Wayve self-driving car with roof-mounted sensors drives past a colourful painted brick wall

    Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges

  • A technician examines a server cabinet in a data centre lit by teal light

    UK economy unexpectedly grows 0.4% in July boosted by AI

Spotlight

  • An illustration showing a ballistic missile war

    AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?

  • Elon Musk in Alex Gibney’s film.

    State handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk film

  • Smiling male entrepreneur talking on smart phone and writing in diary while sitting on seat

    The death of ‘hello’: how gen Z – and scammers – put paid to the greeting

  • AI Generated food images seen on Bella Cafe's menu

    Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus

Opinion & analysis

  • A teenager looking at her phone

    Social media users could opt out of the algorithm if Australian government has its way – but that’s a big if

  • a license plate reader is mounted on a pole

    Cut the cameras: Flock surveillance cameras spur rare bipartisan backlash

  • A modernist building with skyways with a large metal sculpture and and people outside

    double quotation markBig business has shown small firms what to do – and what not to do – with AI

    Gene Marks
  • Close-up of teenage boys' hands holding and scrolling on smartphones while sitting next to each other

    Meta’s settlement will compel others to bend the knee and set up teen guardrails

  • Lara Croft crouches with two pistols, facing a growling leopard in dense jungle foliage

    Raiding the past: Lara Croft relives her first adventure in Legacy of Atlantis

    We have a first play of the forthcoming Tomb Raider remake and speak with its developers. Can they improve on the gameplay without losing what made the 1996 original such a classic?
  • Marvel's Wolverine game screenshot

    Marvel’s Wolverine review – a gloriously conflicted lead is let down by crude, boring battling

  • A group of people sitting in front of screens, wearing headphones, playing a video game

    Streaming from the cloud was meant to change games forever – what happened?

    Newsletter
  • Jason and Lucia stand back-to-back holding rifles as cash flies through the air

    double quotation markGrand Theft Auto VI: can playing a video game count as cheating on your partner?

    Emma Flint
  • Keza MacDonald

    double quotation markThe Trump White House’s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade

    Keza MacDonald
  • Man stands in front of screen at product launch

    Who is John Ternus, Apple’s new CEO?

  • Protesters holding signs outside a data center

    Conservatives split from Silicon Valley allies as datacenter backlash grows

    Newsletter
  • Meta faces a landmark trial in federal court over claims from 29 states, alleging it improperly captured data from minors, in OaklandJurors watch Elena Davis, a social impact user experience researcher at Meta, in recorded testimony as Meta faces a landmark trial in federal court over claims from 29 states, alleging it improperly captured data from minors, designed its social media platforms to addict children and misled the public about their safety in Oakland, California, U.S., August 19, 2026 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. NO USE ABC, BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, FOX, NBC and all the broadcast TV local Bay Area affiliates.

    Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash

    Newsletter
  • Emma Brockes

    double quotation markRelax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away

    Emma Brockes

Reviews

  • In Playing With Fire, a woman plays piano on a floating platform amid fires and a giant moon

    Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds

  • Olivia Woolhouse holds the armored arm of Richard Stacey's character on stage in The Trial of Romeo Oscar by Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

    The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder

  • Elon Musk raises both arms below a large American flag at a Trump campaign rally

    Musk review – epic study of the world’s richest and most banal man

  • A hand holds a Pixel 11 smartphone displaying a home screen full of colourful app icons.

    Pixel 11 review: Google sets the bar for standard flagship phones

In depth

  • Protesters holding hand-painted signs and wearing white masks that say 'go home;

    Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?

  • A man reading a children's alphabet book

    Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do your best to pronounce these words’

  • Silhouette of a person sweeping amid glowing green computer code

    Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

  • Amelia Dimolendenberg looks across a chicken shop table at Shania Twain, who smiles towards the camera

    Rise of Chicken Shop Date highlights how YouTube turned the tables on TV

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