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‘Prosthetics aren’t made for people like us’: the brothers creating innovative artificial limbs for Africans

When Ubokobong Amanam lost his fingers in an accident he teamed up with his brother John, a special effects artist, to design a prosthetic that suited him – now they run a thriving business

Night Stage review – public sex enthusiasm the key to extravagant and subversive erotic thriller

In this fantasy drama from Brazil, a gay actor and a closeted politician discover a mutual passion for the same fetish

Q review – freedom, lies and transgressions in emotional fallout from a secretive Muslim women’s movement

Jude Chehab turns the camera on the maelstrom – and slow liberation – after her mother’s expulsion from controversial group al-Qubaysiat

Kim Novak says Sydney Sweeney is ‘totally wrong to play me’ in biopic

The 93-year-old says Sweeney ‘looks sexy all the time’ and she ‘never approved’ Scandalous, drama about her romance with Sammy Davis Jr

Urgent action needed to prevent surge in digital violence in Africa, experts say

A huge rise in internet users under the age of 30 has fuelled an increase in online violence against women and girls with devastating real-life effects, activists say

Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time

The president may not be benefiting directly from betting markets, but he has encouraged a culture that treats politics like a casino floor, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

‘Double standards’: Instagram removes Erin O’Connor’s pregnancy photos again

Model posted pictures of herself naked and ‘in her full power’ to celebrate Mother’s Day, before Meta took them down for breaching nudity guidelines

The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin

Other commenters helped me diagnose the problem. When I couldn’t afford the solution, someone I knew only by his handle offered to pay

‘Serve, smile, procreate’: Yesteryear author Caro Claire Burke on the rise of the tradwife

As her dark debut about a tradwife who wakes up in the past is made into a film by Anne Hathaway, the novelist explores the sinister truth behind the barefoot influencers

Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media

In his strongest intervention yet, PM says some features ‘shouldn’t be permitted’, while education secretary says things ‘are going to change’

How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’

The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine

Leonid Radvinsky’s widow has been left with a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaire

Two in five Australian GPs use AI scribes to record patient notes – but do they trade care for convenience?

Some doctors argue it allows them to better connect with patients, but advocates warn the AI technology risks the opposite

Shaun Micallef: ‘Charlie Pickering said that’s the only thing keeping him going – to vanquish me’

The comedian and author on writing a gothic novel, giving up butter and the film he has watched 30 times

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  • Supergirl: the new trailer suggests that the DC Universe has an intriguing trick up its sleeve
  • UK’s leading AI research institute told to make ‘significant’ changes
  • Weapons to Sexy Beast: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • ‘It’s the year of gay Brazilian cruising!’ The makers of Night Stage on public sex and their ‘deranged erotic thriller’
  • Federal judge throws out most of Blake Lively’s claims against Justin Baldoni
  • Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals
  • Court dismisses former WhatsApp security chief’s lawsuit against Meta
  • ‘Curated chaos’: Danny Boyle on the ‘pop culture spectacular’ he’s bringing to London’s Southbank Centre
  • Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked!
  • Goodbye mrbrightside416: Google allows users to alter quirky Gmail addresses
  • I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever
  • I handed over my dating life to AI. I don’t think she’ll see me again
  • World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam
  • Her daughter was murdered seven years ago. Why are images of the crime still on social media?
  • Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests
  • Albanese announces crackdown on gambling ads, but falls well short of Labor’s own calls for total ban
  • UK social media users less active on tech platforms due to rise of video apps
  • Claude’s code: Anthropic leaks source code for AI software engineering tool
  • The Guardian view on the BBC’s future: who decides what news means?
  • SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say
  • ‘System malfunction’ causes robotaxis to stall in the middle of the road in China
  • Big tech’s tipping point: inside the 3 April Guardian Weekly
  • Terry Cox obituary
  • ‘About bloody time’: Prince Harry welcomes lawsuits against tech firms
  • Patrick McKeown obituary
  • ‘We got cancelled and we’re still here!’ Michael Patrick King on The Comeback – and why And Just Like That will age well
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  • Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI
  • MP rejects Palantir’s claims that criticism of NHS England deal is ‘ideologically motivated’
  • US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending

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