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The Guardian view on B-sides: a lost serendipity

Editorial: The profusion of digital music has drowned out collective experience in a welter of algorithmic choice

Apple launches iOS 11.3 with raft of privacy features

Sensing opportunity – and GDPR – the Silicon Valley company launches major data protection push across devices

Younger viewers now watch Netflix more than the BBC, says corporation

Broadcaster fears being ‘overtaken by competitors’ as technology firms increasingly dominate on-demand viewing

Fortnite shoots to the top of teenagers’ most-wanted games list

Players snap up clothing items as iPhone version of free video game tops iTunes chart in 13 countries

The EU could save Britain from big tech. This is not the time to force-quit

Brexit is about to leave consumers with little control over their data, and the government helpless against tax avoidance, says the Lib Dem leader Vince Cable

‘Tech CEOs are like cult leaders’ – the artists taking on Facebook and big data

Langlands and Bell are celebrating their 40th year together – by taking an uncompromising look at Silicon Valley’s utopian promises

The Guardian view on big tech: a new era needs new rules

Editorial: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are too big and too powerful. Regulation has to catch up with the changing character of the digital economy

Unsane: how Steven Soderbergh manages to thrill with just an iPhone

The director’s latest film, shot entirely on a phone, is a dizzying deep dive into the psyche of a stalking victim kept in a mental care facility against her will. Contains spoilers

What’s it like to play Fortnite on an iPhone?

One of the world’s most popular video games is now on phones, as well as everywhere else you look. We assess how it performs on a small screen

Apple to buy ‘Netflix for magazines’ Texture

‘Virtual newsstand’ lets users read about 200 digital titles for a monthly subscription fee

Three Apple workers hurt walking into glass walls in first month at $5bn HQ

Emergency services called to Norman Foster-designed Apple Park, which Steve Jobs called ‘a shot at the best office building in the world’

What price privacy when Apple gets into bed with China?

Apple’s much-vaunted principles melt away under China’s cybersecurity law, which allows the state to access our data

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age by Andrew Keen – review

As the internet giants run amok, a visionary critic calls for governments and citizens to tackle a crisis of historic proportions

How can I use my laptop to create a home office?

Gareth sometimes works at home with his MacBook Pro and wants to use it with a separate keyboard and screen

Apple to launch ‘technology enabled’ healthcare service

Following Amazon’s lead, iPhone maker creating in-house clinics and health service for employees

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  • Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
  • Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
  • Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
  • 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

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