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Google Pixel 4a 5G review: cheaper with two-day battery

Bigger screen, longer battery life and great camera make the 4a 5G the best Pixel this year

Washington’s crackdown on Google is the greatest threat yet to big tech

The justice department brought antitrust charges against the company, but experts say that’s just a start

Lawsuit against Google is a significant and long overdue moment

The anti-monopoly claim against Alphabet will take years in the courts but a case has been brought nonetheless

US justice department sues Google over accusation of illegal monopoly

Lawsuit accuses tech company of abusing its position to dominate search and search advertising

If Facebook and Google limit services in Australia, could the ABC run a social network?

A new paper suggests a publicly funded replacement could be form part of the government’s response if the tech giants limit access

Europe and America are taking on the tech giants. Britain needs to join the fight

The government is a bystander to attempts to break up the Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple monopolies

Pixel 5 review: Google gets back to basics

The 4a’s big brother is simple to use and has a great camera, but can’t compete with rivals in terms of processing power

Biden article row shows how US election is testing Facebook and Twitter

Online giants felt forced to take unprecedented action as they struggle with role during divisive presidential battle

MPs to examine impact of streaming on future of music industry

Culture committee chair Julian Knight said it would investigate whether the business models used by major streaming platforms are fair to writers and performers

Amazon to escape UK digital services tax that will hit smaller traders

US tech company’s third-party sellers face a 2% rise in the amount they pay

Screen time is as addictive as junk food – how do we wean children off?

Social media addiction isn’t a failure of parenting. It’s a feature of the tech industry, says campaigner Belinda Parmar

Google Nest Audio review: smart speaker gets music upgrade

Louder, more bass and better sound for Google Assistant speaker made of recycled plastic bottles

Cory Doctorow: ‘Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists’

The tech activist on his new sci-fi novel and why we mustn’t treat the moral downsides of social media as a necessary evil

Finally US politicians are taking the fight to the tech giants

The House of Representatives’ report is a timely attack on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

Backers of Australia’s mandatory news code welcome French ruling on Google

Paris court orders the tech giant to discuss compensation with publishers for using content in search results or on Google News

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  • Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • Angry and lonely after my marriage ended, I came dangerously close to embracing the manosphere
  • Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents
  • Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
  • AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
  • 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

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