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Tech giants’ shares soar as companies benefit from Covid-19 pandemic

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google reported positive quarterly results even as overall US economic growth fell by 32.9%

The winners and losers of the big tech congressional hearings

The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook endured an uncomfortable day before Congress

Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sight

The five and a half hour long hearing on Capitol Hill offered a stunning illustration of the extent of misdeeds by big tech

Congress’s historic tech hearing suggests antitrust crackdown could come soon

Analysis: heated exchanges raise concern over anticompetitive behavior as chair warns of companies’ ‘monopoly power’

‘This should never have happened’: lawmakers condemn Facebook’s Instagram acquisition – as it happened

Jerry Nadler unimpressed with Mark Zuckerberg’s answer on Instagram deal, while Amazon boss Jeff Bezos accused of hypocrisy – follow live

‘Too much power’: Congress grills top tech CEOs in combative antitrust hearing

Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google executives face criticism over their companies’ unfair online dominance

‘Big companies aren’t bad’: Zuckerberg and other tech CEOs to testify in historic antitrust hearing

Chief executives of Amazon, Google and Apple will also testify as part of high-powered investigation into tech industry

Wiley’s Facebook and Instagram accounts deactivated after antisemitic remarks

Move comes following criticism from Priti Patel and UK’s chief rabbi over social media companies’ inaction

US thinktank linked to Google donations criticised ‘problematic’ ACCC digital media inquiry

The Global Antitrust Institute last year submitted a 24-page condemnation of preliminary findings made by Australia’s competition watchdog

Google commits to vast London office despite rise of remote working

Tech giant will allow all global staff to work from home until July 2021 as building work in King’s Cross continues

BBC axes evening edition of Newsround after 48 years

Programme makers shift focus to internet and daily children’s TV bulletin aimed at schools

Facebook boycott grows as US activists urge European firms to act

Call for companies to withdraw advertising comes as Wiley is suspended from platform over Instagram posts

Billionaire bosses to feel the heat over tech giants’ massive wealth and power

Extraordinary hearing will see some of the richest men in history called to account for their firms’ market dominance

Wiley’s racism flowed because social media is a petri dish of hate

The rapper will pay for his antisemitism but nothing else will change. Twitter and Instagram were once cute but have turned vicious, writes the comedian Nish Kumar

Covid-19 and technology: ‘This time has shown me that analogue life has its advantages’

Our leading technology writers discuss Facebook, the inexorable rise of misinformation, the success of Black Lives Matter … and the simple joys of a bird feeder

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  • 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
  • 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

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