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20 best Android apps and games this week

Habbo, Riff, Office Lens, Attack the Light, DomiNations, Marvel Mighty Heroes, Spell With Pip, Infinit and more

National newspapers still hold the general election chips

Agenda-setting press casts its bets in a series of opening leading articles

Facebook to launch social virtual reality experiences using Oculus Rift

Sharing birthday celebrations or a child’s first bike ride in virtual reality could become a thing if Facebook gets its way with new Oculus Rift headset

Instagram launches standalone Layout app for photo collages

Facebook’s photo and video-sharing subdisiary debuts its second spin-off app following Hyperlapse

Salma Hayek praises social media’s ‘peaceful revolution’ for women

Actor says Facebook and Twitter have helped tackle issues such as domestic violence and age discrimination - and takes her first selfie

Facebook Messenger app will soon allow people to send money to friends

Social network makes its big move into mobile payments, although the ability to send money directly to contacts will be US-only for now

Former YouTube exec: don’t alienate fans by leaving the streaming service

Patrick Walker, boss of multi-platform network Rightster, sees potential on Facebook, Vessel, Snapchat and other platforms – if creators are careful

Facebook clarifies policy on nudity, hate speech and other community standards

Social network’s updated guidelines also cover self-harm, bullying and harassment, violence and graphic content

Facebook removes ‘feeling fat’ status option and emoji after campaign

Social network responds to petition from anti-body shaming group to get rid of status option and double-chin emoji

Is Facebook’s ‘Zee Town’ more than just a Mark Zuckerberg vanity project?

The Facebook mogul is following a long line of entrepreneurs from Walt Disney to George Cadbury in creating a 200-acre, 10,000-strong private municipality for his staff. Adam Greenfield asks whether company towns are ever a good idea

Experience: my face was stolen online

‘I went to the police and waited four hours to speak to someone, but they weren’t interested. The law doesn’t cover you to protect your face’

Eight lessons political parties need to learn to woo young voters

Brands such as Adidas and Red Bull offer important pointers for political parties trying to win over young voters before the general election

HTC and Valve take on Oculus Rift with Vive virtual reality headset

Standalone device will go head-to-head with Facebook’s $2bn VR headset by the end of 2015, when both will have released commercial editions

From Dakota Johnson and Cinderella to Pierce Brosnan’s son and Romala Garai’s frock: what’s hot and what’s not on Planet Fashion this week

Thumbs up: Dakota Johnson’s fringe, Cinderella’s bag and the freckle pencil. Thumbs down: Pierce Brosnan, Henry Holland’s slogan Ts and Romala Garai’s apparent colour blindness

Facebook rolls out new suicide prevention and support tools

Social network adds a report button that flags suicidal content for review by a dedicated team to try and help

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  • AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
  • The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama
  • AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
  • Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare
  • The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media – and my children have never been happier
  • ‘Impossible to be a mom’: new film shines light on how America fails its mothers
  • Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee
  • ‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie
  • Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
  • Shoot the People review – a powerful portrait of a talented yet controversial photographer
  • ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre
  • What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
  • Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
  • Meta bosses grilled over decision to cut ‘censorship’ that has potentially unleashed more antisemitic content
  • A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands
  • Sennheiser Momentum 5 headphones review: great sound meets exceptional battery life
  • ‘It was pretty depressing when Stranger Things ended’: Finn Wolfhard on growing up on TV – and his new life in music
  • China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands
  • AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper
  • Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?
  • ‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
  • What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it
  • The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more
  • ‘Tough pill to swallow’: LadBible boss on the traffic hit from Meta’s feed shake-up
  • Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn
  • From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
  • NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services
  • Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy
  • Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
  • OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment

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