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Google location data: what does Australian court ruling mean and how can I turn off my tracking history?

Two experts on the significance of the ACCC court win that found Google ‘partially’ misled users over location data

Medical tests promoted in media with no mention of potential harm, Australian study finds

Stories all reported potential benefits of tests, some using smartphone or watch, but 60% failed to mention limitations

LG to pull out of mobile phone market

South Korea firm promises service and software support as it shifts focus to more profitable businesses

Global silicon chip shortage hits supply of phones, TVs, cars and Australia’s NBN

Covid shutdowns and Texas storms behind dearth of chips needed for semiconductors to make array of products

Infinitum: Subject Unknown review – solo time-loop echoes lockdown vexation

This iPhone-shot sci-fi drama with cameos from Ian McKellen and Conleth Hill is impressively realised, though the plot ultimately frustrates

Apple’s Tim Cook joins chorus in denouncing Georgia’s voting law

Company is latest to speak out against law that restricts voting access in the state that was passed last week

Apple to let repairers in Australia and New Zealand sign up to spare parts program

Scheme expanded to 38 more countries as tech giant faces heat on the right to repair iPhones and Macs

‘Two Goliaths’: Apple labels Epic’s Australian challenge to in-app purchases ‘self-serving’

Federal court to decide whether Fortnite maker’s case can be heard while legal action under way in US

Global shortage in computer chips ‘reaches crisis point’

Consumer price rises loom while dearth of semiconductors slow production from Samsung to Ford

Google to slash app store fees by half for developers’ first US$1m in sales

The cut will take effect from July with 99% of developers globally receiving a reduction as the company and Apple face legal action from Epic Games

Ending over mending: planned obsolescence is killing the planet

As Australia considers the right to repair, it’s worth thinking about how the items we use daily became so disposable

Fortnite creator Epic Games launches Australian legal action against Google

Epic’s court battle with Google over being banned from the Play Store, mirrors one it has launched against Apple over its App Store removal

Tech giants to make Australia’s phone repairers extinct, right-to-repair inquiry hears

Retailers and consumers call on the government to stop manufacturers squeezing third party repairers out of the industry

Apple and Google face new antitrust battle over Arizona app store bill

Measure would allow developers to use own payment systems as tide turns against industry that has been largely unregulated

Best UK streaming and pay-TV services 2021: Sky, Virgin, Netflix and Amazon Prime compared and ranked

Our updated list of the best pay-TV and streaming services in the UK

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  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • UK attorney general tells department to stop using X amid disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
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  • 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
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  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
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  • ‘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
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  • 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

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