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TechScape: Apple plays it safe with the iPhone 14 – thanks to crash detection

Your device may be able to call emergency services if you get into trouble. It’s a genuine technological leap in a field where innovation is in short supply

iOS 16 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big update

Free software upgrades for iPhone and Watch that revamp the lockscreen, add new watchfaces, can unsend messages and more due for release

Apple’s iPhone 14 puts safety first as financial downturn bites

Firm turns to features such as car crash detection and ‘no bars’ rescues rather than exciting new designs

Apple launches the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8

Always-on display lets notification addicts stay connected but only ‘pro’ models get the latest A16 Bionic chip

Buy refurbished, sell later: cheaper, greener ways to upgrade your mobile phone in Australia

As upgrade season arrives, phone users have more options than ever for improving their handsets in environmental, cost-effective ways

‘I didn’t want it anywhere near me’: how the Apple AirTag became a gift to stalkers

A gadget the size of a 10p coin, the AirTag was intended to help people find their keys. Instead it has facilitated a boom in terrifying behaviour from abusers

Rumours abound over Apple’s ‘far out’ iPhone 14 launch

When new versions are unveiled this week only ‘pro’ models will get chip upgrade, analyst reports

Starbucks and Amazon accused of dragging their feet on union contracts

After successful unionization drives, experts say companies will ‘fight to the end’ to prevent the next step

Is the work-from-home debate already over?

Both remote work and a return to the office have their benefits – which is why a compromise is inevitable

Apple workers launch petition over firm’s return-to-office stance

Group responds to CEO’s memo calling for ‘in-person collaboration’ at least three days a week

We can make our phones harder to hack but complete security is a pipe dream

Even the latest iPhone scare won’t persuade us to choose safety over convenience

Apple security flaw ‘actively exploited’ by hackers to fully control devices

Users of iPhone, iPad and Mac advised to update software to secure them against vulnerability

Saudi snitching app appears to have been used against jailed Leeds student

‘Terrifying tool’ under scrutiny as Salma al-Shehab’s tweets suggest widely available phone app was used to report her

Users of Zoom on Macs told to update app as company issues security fix

Security flaw had meant hackers could bypass protection and convince installer of app to load and run malware

Apple tells staff to come into the office for at least three days a week

Memo from boss Tim Cook backs down from earlier attempt to get all employees in on same three fixed days

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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate
  • Tell us your favourite film of 2026 so far
  • As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
  • Taliban order ban on smartphones as officials shown destroying devices
  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
  • The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35
  • ‘It makes no sense’: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban
  • The best power banks and battery packs in the UK for reliable charging on the go, tested
  • Teddie Beverley obituary
  • Apocalypse when? ‘Earth’s Black Box’ to be installed in remote Tasmanian airfield
  • UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
  • Legislation proposed to stop lawsuits used to silence journalists and whistleblowers
  • Fears for Xbox as it puts its developers on the chopping block once again
  • I had a blood clot. An AI diagnosis may have saved my life
  • Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator
  • ‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams
  • ‘Vegetarian Nigella’ and flirty hair flips: John Early and Kate Berlant take on diet culture in new influencer satire
  • The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding
  • Will it take a ‘Chornobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI?
  • Your Fault: London review – British-set remake of Spanish step-sibling romance lacks passion or fizz

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