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Digital afterlife – how to deal with social media accounts when someone dies

Dealing with a departed loved one’s digital life can be complicated and time consuming but there are some shortcuts

Google boss warns staff to expect further job cuts this year

Sundar Pichai’s memo acknowledges redundancies would come on top of round of layoffs reported last week

Google promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits. It didn’t, study says

Tech giant said it would delete entries for locations deemed ‘personal’ or sensitive, but 18 months later, it’s still retaining data in some cases

Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows

YouTube criticised for amplifying lies about the climate with disinformation videos watched by young people

Google lays off 1,000 workers, union says

Tech giant among others – including Amazon and Meta – to cut workforce as business predictions slowed down in the past year

If you were given a Google Street View image of anywhere on Earth, could you identify the location?

The competitors at the GeoGuessr World Cup can do just that. The clues are in brick houses, distinctive trousers and unusual telegraph poles

Tech giants could be forced to share secret news deals under Australia’s media bargaining code

New legislation will help ensure sustainability of public interest journalism, Labor says

Let’s hope Epic’s antitrust win over Google is the first of many tech giant losses

The jury in the video game developer’s antitrust case over Google’s app store monopoly were under no illusions

The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple

The Fortnite maker filed antitrust suits against both tech companies – while one emerged victorious, the other was found at fault on 11 claims

Google profiting from sale of zombie knives in UK despite claims of ban

Campaigners demand more government action after ads for the weapons are being promoted by tech giant

ChatGPT exploded into public life a year ago. Now we know what went on behind the scenes

The fallout from AI’s ‘Pearl Harbor moment’ has been dramatic. In tech, 12 months can seem like an eternity

Google says new AI model Gemini outperforms ChatGPT in most tests

Gemini is being released in form of upgrade to Google’s chatbot Bard, but not yet in UK or EU

Elon Musk’s AI startup seeks to raise $1bn in equity

Billionaire wants xAI to keep pace with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Google

‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike

Employees held a vigil for Mai Ubeid, who was killed in Gaza, and denounced Project Nimbus, which provides services to Israel’s military

Google to pay Canada news publishers $73m a year to keep news in search

Deal resolves tech giant’s concerns over Online News Act, which makes big companies share advertising revenue with publishers

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  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
  • Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors
  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate
  • Tell us your favourite film of 2026 so far
  • As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
  • Taliban order ban on smartphones as officials shown destroying devices
  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
  • The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35

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