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iOS 13: Apple launches faster iPhone software with more privacy

Update opens apps twice as fast, includes Sign in with Apple to protect personal data

Apple expected to close iTunes after 18 years

Tim Cook will announce separate apps for music, TV and podcasts, according to reports

Can I buy a future-proof laptop to last 10 years?

Ed wants to buy a Windows laptop that will last as long as possible, and is willing to pay up to £2,000

Apple and WhatsApp condemn GCHQ plans to eavesdrop on encrypted chats

GCHQ ‘ghost protocol’ would seriously undermine user security and trust, says letter

I tried to sexually harass Siri, but all she did was give me a polite brush-off

Virtual assistants are millennial Stepford Wives. But perhaps there’s an upside for real women, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Digital assistants like Siri and Alexa entrench gender biases, says UN

Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds

I wanted to order my breakfast from a waiter not an iPad

Eating is a social pleasure – touchscreens just serve to make it more solitary

WhatsApp hack: have I been affected and what should I do?

Time to make sure WhatsApp is updated on your iPhone, Android or Windows device

Apple’s iPhone cost faces sharp increase as US-China trade dispute worsens

Trump-imposed tariff of 25% on $200bn of goods could add about $160 to the cost of a $999 Chinese-made iPhone XS

Tech firms to give secret evidence at child sexual abuse inquiry

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google will make submissions as inquiry looks at online abuse

Astrologaster review – comedy quack stalks the streets of Shakespeare

You play an Elizabethan astrologer-physician treating a bunch of hilarious hypochondriacs in this well put together game

My data security is better than yours: tech CEOs throw shade in privacy wars

Apple, Google and Facebook are racing to embrace the latest buzzword, and taking swipes at each other in the process

Apple braces for EU investigation after Spotify complaint

Streaming service accuses iPhone maker of abusing its dominance of its App Store

Apple finds wearable ‘gimmicks’ really count as iPhone slips

As sales of its signature product peak a big change in strategy has emerged in the form of the Apple Watch and AirPod

Apple’s iPhone sales fall 17% in first quarter as flagship product struggles

Quarter marked another quarterly decline in profit and revenue as the company struggled to move beyond the iPhone

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  • Thirsty and power hungry: Australia is in the middle of a datacentre boom – but are they good for the economy?
  • 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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