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Apple aims to appease customers with free MacBook keyboard repairs

Company’s admission over faulty keyboards follows litany of complaints

Apple strikes blow to Facebook as it clamps down on data harvesting

Rules appear to target services like Onavo Protect, which claims to protect user data even as it feeds information to Facebook

The lesson from big tech’s latest PR events? They know we’re on to them…

Both Google and Apple talked up the great benefits of their technologies at recent conferences, but it takes only a touch of Kremlinology to find a very different story

Underpaid and exhausted: the human cost of your Kindle

In the Chinese city of Hengyang, we find a fatigued, disposable workforce assembling gadgets for Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man.

Apple inches closer to $1tn mark as Wall Street tech panic dissipates

Tech’s stock market dominance is no longer a Wall Street fear as Apple is close to becoming first company valued at $1tn

Got a problem with big tech? Big tech has the solution to that!

Facing criticism over the grip it has on our lives, Silicon Valley has developed the idea of ‘digital wellbeing’. I don’t buy it, says the author Steven Poole

iOS 12: everything you need to know about new iPhone features

Apple has unveiled its new OS for its smartphones and tablets. What does it mean for notifications, privacy and emoji?

Tech companies have the answer to phone addiction: more tech

Silicon Valley believes there is no problem they can’t solve, even if the problem is that their tech is making us miserable

Apple escalates war against Facebook, but doesn’t mention it at WWDC

ITP2 anti-tracking and limiting Screen Time app clearly targeting Facebook and Instagram

WWDC 2018 keynote: Apple to stop Facebook tracking on iOS 12 – as it happened

Tim Cook and friends kick off ‘dubdub’ in California, with new Apple Watch features, Siri Shortcuts, new Animoji, group FaceTime, ARKit and more

Apple’s new ‘digital wellbeing’ tools aim to help reduce screen time

‘Screen Time’ app show how long you spend on each app and lets people set daily limits

Donald Trump shuns iPhone security because it’s ‘inconvenient’, reports say

US president reportedly resisted White House security checks for Twitter phone for ‘as long as five months’

Google sued for ‘clandestine tracking’ of 4.4m UK iPhone users’ browsing data

Collective action seeking up to £3.2bn for claims Google bypassed privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser

Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless

It’s years since Silicon Valley gave us a game-changer. Instead, from curing disease to colonies on Mars, we’re fed overblown promises, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Apple facing class action lawsuit over defective MacBook Pro keyboards

Plaintiffs complain of frustration at design that has left keys prone to becoming stuck, leaving laptops unusable

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  • Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
  • ‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
  • Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror
  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine review – scavenger’s story reveals a rich seam to mine
  • The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
  • 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

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