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Apple Watch Series 5 review: the king of smartwatches

Always-on screen completes the package kicking competitors to the curb and becoming a top reason to buy an iPhone

Google to add eye detection to Pixel 4 after privacy concerns

Update will prevent new smartphone being unlocked using owner’s sleeping face

Big tech, big profits? Amazon sales poised to leap 24%

Shares have risen fivefold in five years and despite the shadow over tech analysts bet Amazon is immune to a backlash

Our fears will be realised if we become afraid of technology

If we fail to learn how to use it to our advantage we fall into the hands of those have mastered it

Netflix’s growth slows as it braces for influx of competition

Profits rise but subscriber base expands more slowly than expected, while Apple, Disney and others prepare own services

Tim Cook defends Apple’s removal of Hong Kong mapping app

Apple chief said in a letter HKmap.live was ‘used maliciously to target’ officers as claim was disputed by protesters on the ground

The Guardian view on China and basketball: power games

Editorial: A boycott sparked by comments on Hong Kong’s protests has highlighted how China is exporting its controls on speech by economic means

iPhone 11 Pro Max review: salvaged by epic battery life

A great camera, screen and performance can’t save horrendous ergonomics, but at least it’ll last two days on battery

‘Protecting rioters’: China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police

State media says ‘poisonous’ app made Apple an accomplice in the Hong Kong protests

‘Alexa, are you invading my privacy?’ – the dark side of our voice assistants

There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare

iPhone 11 Pro review: the best small phone available

A cracking camera, great screen and 32-hour battery life – but at an eye-watering price

Minecraft Earth is coming – it will change the way you see your town

As the augmented-reality spinoff from the block-building game arrives this month, players will be taking their creations to the streets

iPhone 11 review: an iPhone XR with a better camera

Apple’s lower cost model has latest chips and longer battery life but is identical on outside to predecessor

What’s the best gaming laptop to replace a MacBook Air for Minecraft?

Robert is looking for a laptop that has a keyboard like an old MacBook Air

BBC ‘ignoring its audience’ over iPlayer app removal

Broadcaster criticised as replacement app restricted to newer operating systems

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  • Superfood or sweet treat? 17 delicious ways with popcorn – from snack bars and choux buns to salads and soups
  • 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
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • 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
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

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