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So an ancient TV set can bring down the mighty broadband? Good…

As one who resists technological change, I think we should defend the telly that took out a Welsh village’s internet

Ring the changes: the best mid-price smartphones

Lower cost doesn’t have to mean lower quality: these mobiles can give high-end models a run for their money

European commission to appeal against €13bn Apple tax ruling

Brussels seeks to overturn decision over alleged unpaid taxes to Irish government

Users report issues as Covid-19 app launches in England and Wales

Problems on Android and iPhone leave some unable to use the software at all

Take-up of NHS contact-tracing app could be only 10%

Pilot studies show low download rate as app launches in England and Wales

Apple’s surprise OS update leaves app developers scrambling

Company releases new versions of operating systems with just a day’s notice

Apple launches new iPad Air and Apple One subscription

Mid-tier iPad Air gets big upgrade in design and performance while firm also improves its cheapest, eighth-generation iPad

Apple event 2020: iPhone giant reveals Apple Watch 6, Fitness+ and new iPads – live updates

Follow latest updates from ‘Time Flies’ event led by Apple chief executive Tim Cook

Apple Watch Series 6 and cheaper Watch SE launched

Top Apple smartwatch has new blood oxygen sensor, while SE has main features at reduced price

Facebook and Google announce plans to become carbon neutral

Firms join Apple and Microsoft in committing to put no excess carbon into the atmosphere

Apple One services bundle could be launched within days

Subscription deal will combine products including Apple TV+ and Apple Music, leak suggests

Fortnite could face year-long Apple ban, says Epic Games

Court filings reveal Apple may delay return even if developer backtracks in App Store dispute

Google and Apple app stores investigated by Australia’s competition watchdog

ACCC to examine how tech giants link their own products in their app stores and the effect on competition

The 20 greatest home computers – ranked!

They seemed like the future … and here we are. We remember the key PC machines that inspired a generation of gamers and programmers

Apple’s iOS update will be bad news for developers, but a boon for users

The tech giant’s monopoly over App Store content will bring a change to data privacy on its devices that has advertisers worried

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  • Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
  • Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off
  • To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?
  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
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  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
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  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories

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