Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services
Unimpressed tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’
I wanted an oven with a knob. Instead I got a world of pain
My new oven has a touchscreen – and demanded to be connected to my broadband. Now it won’t give me a moment’s peace
Football ‘has eaten almost every sport’ due to digital dominance, says podcast chief
Football ‘has eaten almost every sport worldwide’ thanks to its dominance of TV and digital markets, according to the head of the leading podcast production company Goalhanger
Everybody to Kenmure Street review – community triumphs in inspiring retelling of 2021 Glasgow protest
Emma Thompson voices the anonymous ‘Van Man’ in a documentary about local people standing their ground against heavy-handed immigration enforcement
In the Blink of an Eye review – Pixar director’s long-delayed sci-fi epic falls flat
The director of Finding Nemo and Wall-E has made an ambitious yet entirely baffling mess with the help of Rashida Jones and Kate McKinnon
Floodland review – a moving portrait of Lismore and its inhabitants
Filmed in the aftermath of the 2022 Lismore floods, this documentary moves like water, dipping into the lives of various townspeople with fluid ease
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’
Gregory de Polnay obituary
Other lives: Long-serving actor on stage and TV who later turned to work as a voice coach and drama teacher
‘People feel like they’re in on the joke’: the new wave of pseudo-biopics
It’s not about John Bishop, Anna Wintour or Bill Clinton, but … Screen stories about pop stars, actors, sporting heroes or politicians bend fact by steering close to the deeds, or misdeeds, of real celebrities. What’s behind their rise?
‘I really believe in revivals of Black work’: why a director brought back Chadwick Boseman’s play Deep Azure
The late actor’s writing was overshadowed by roles in blockbusters. Now, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is giving his play about grief the audience it deserves
Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’
He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, but for the next 10,000 years
Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’
Davidson said he ‘can’t begin to explain how upset and distraught I have been’ over slurs he shouted during the award ceremony
Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it
In Josh Safdie’s film, the worlds of sport and the stage are aligned – with the stakes higher for Gwyneth Paltrow’s former screen star, now on Broadway, than for Timothée Chalamet’s table-tennis hotshot
The Martini Shot review – Matthew Modine and a cast to die for can’t fathom an unholy mess
Modine plays a dying director shooting his final film – alongside Derek Jacobi, John Cleese and Stuart Townsend – in this baffling existential drama
I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC
By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye