TechScape: Is the Consumer Electronics Show still relevant?
The world’s largest tech event has cutting-edge TVs and even a VW with ChatGPT – but cheap gadgets and big tech have dented its influence. Plus, HMRC comes for side hustlers
New app can reduce debilitating impact of tinnitus, say researchers
MindEar delivers CBT through chatbot with sound therapy allowing brain to learn to tune out condition
The Vinted phenomenon: how one woman sold her clothes – and created a billion-dollar company
In 2008, Milda Mitkute and a friend set up a website to clear out her closet. It soon grew exponentially. Now Vinted has 16 million UK users and is the first Lithuanian ‘unicorn’. Can it make secondhand our first choice?
In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks
Beijing set the goal of being the global AI leader by 2030, but that was before the emergence of ChatGPT
Post Office IT firm Fujitsu reports £22m UK profits as directors receive payouts
Company under fire over its Horizon system, which gave false impression post office operators had stolen cash
Did you solve it? Do you think like a software engineer?
The answer to today’s tantalising tech teaser
HyperVerse crypto promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ arrested and charged in US
Exclusive: Internal Revenue Service alleges Rodney Burton was part of a network that made ‘fraudulent’ presentations claiming high returns for investors based on crypto-mining operations that did not exist
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products
Twitter changed my life for good. But the platform I loved no longer exists
The impact on my life was overwhelmingly positive. But the dark side of social media was a threat to democracy long before Elon Musk
‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work
Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but US unions have been slow to act
More than 1,000 ‘distressing’ social media posts removed at Australian government’s request during Gaza war
Figures show rise in incidents of online extremism and violent content, partly fuelled by Israel-Gaza conflict
Publish Nazi newsletters on your platform, Substack, and you will rightly be damned
The online publishing service has been criticised for the way it has allowed extremist propaganda to flourish on the site
I’m Andrew Tate’s audience and I know why he appeals to young men
A year of investigating the TikTok ‘megabrand’ personality has shown me that – in the midst of a debate on masculinity – many fans like his focus on success more than his views on women
‘I hope it makes everyone want to jump!’: Michelle Z Simmons’ best phone picture
The photographer on bringing a fresh perspective to snapping dancers
I’m 24, but I used a Nokia ‘dumbphone’ for the whole 2010s. Now I long to go back to it
While my friends swapped funny videos on their smartphones, I enjoyed my freedom. Then society made that impossible, says writer Isabel Brooks