One Direction and Pharrell among this year’s Apple Music festival headliners
London event this September unveils the first four of its headline acts
Message read. But what kind of weirdo keeps read receipts on?
Read receipts – those signifiers that a message has been opened and read – fill me with terror, but plenty of people keep them on. Why?
20 best new iPhone and iPad apps and games this week
Microsoft Translator, InboxVudu, MSTY, Morpholio Journal, Monsters Ate My Metropolis, Loot & Legends, March of Empires and more
Silicon Valley vs Motor City: regions compete to test self-driving cars
A 2,100-acre former military base near San Francisco or a 32-acre fake town? Both sites have won interest from automakers and technology companies as they seek to develop the future of transportation
Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car
Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by the Guardian shows Project Titan is further along than many suspected and company is scouting for test locations
Apple’s senior executives are 70% white men, diversity filing reveals
The tech company’s 2014 EEO report, which it finally released after repeated refusal, showed only 11 people of color were in upper management positions
Hey, Siri! Meet the real people behind Apple’s voice-activated assistant
Many of us are familiar with Apple’s iOS assistant – but have you ever thought about the lives behind the voice that answers your queries and requests?
Gifs are the new emojis as they take smartphone chat by storm
Millions of users exchange short video clips as 1980s file format changes online conversation
20 best new iPhone and iPad apps and games this week
Ruby by Glow, A Game of Thrones, MyHeart Counts, Prune, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, Angry Birds 2 and more
Monument Valley developer moves into mental health with Moodnotes app
Ustwo’s mood-tracking joint venture is based on cognitive behavioural therapy principles, aiming to help people understand their highs and lows
Working without walls: do you really need an office?
Startups are saying goodbye to expensive office space by ditching a permanent base altogether
Ads can now tell how fast your heart is beating
As smartphones and wearables collect increasingly sophisticated health data from consumers, advertisers are now considering how this can be used to serve more effective content
Black politicians to push Silicon Valley giants on ‘appalling’ lack of diversity
Congressional Black Caucus to meet executives of Google, Apple and other tech companies with poor track records of hiring African American employees
Can AI help us solve the ad industry’s troubles?
Embrace the algorithm and we will future proof the sector for 2020 and beyond
Windows 10: it launched so quietly you may have missed it
Despite the lack of flourish and giant ads, a lot rides on the success of the new Windows version for Microsoft and its chief executive