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iPhone X: most expensive Apple phone is also easiest to break

Tests conclude that iPhone X screen, Face ID and glass back are vulnerable to damage if dropped, but display is ranked by experts as best ever on a smartphone

Bug stops some iPhone users typing “I” – replacing it with a symbol

Glitch in predictive text system making messages illegible for some iPhone, iPad and Mac users, while Apple Watch bug crashes when asking for the weather

iPhone X: thousands queue as Apple proves it still has the X factor

Demand for the £999 ‘future’ of the iPhone bucks the trend of recent years, with large crowds and some fans queuing for days to get their hands on one

iPhone X review roundup: Face ID works well but notch irritates some

First reviews are in and the consensus is positive, particularly around the new OLED screen, but some flaws in both design and software have been noted

Apple can see all your pictures of bras (but it’s not as bad it sounds)

The company’s Photos app includes AI that can recognise thousands of search terms. Should we worry that one of those is ‘brassiere’?

Facebook denies eavesdropping on conversations to target ads, again

Social network’s head of ads dismisses rumours that Facebook app uses smartphone mics to listen in, serving ads against what it hears

iPhone X: most expensive Apple smartphone sells out in minutes

Demand for new flagship iPhone causes month-long shipping delays, contrasting with muted iPhone 8 sales and reportedly causing Apple concern about supply

iPhone X: how to sell your old device in preparation for Apple’s new release

Apple’s hotly anticipated smartphone is coming in November and selling your existing iPhone is one way of paying for it. But timing is everything

Your iPhone’s password demands aren’t just annoying. They’re a security flaw

A developer has warned it is possible to create a phishing attack based on a fake sign-in request for Apple ID credentials

Is Apple intentionally slowing down your old iPhone? The data suggests not

Data shows consistent performance for iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6S and iPhone 7 with successive iOS updates, but that doesn’t mean the phones don’t feel slower

iPhone 8 Plus: Apple looking into reports of batteries bursting out of smartphones

Reports spanning Asia, North America and Europe show swelling batteries pushing the screens out of Apple’s big new device

iPhone 8 Plus review: still massive – but not in a good way

Apple’s chunky phablet stands out like a sore thumb against its ever-more sleek rivals, and not even its decent camera and battery life can save it

iPhone 8 review: so this is what good battery life feels like

Apple might have phoned in the design again, but an improved power supply, wireless charging and a cracking camera save it. But is it worth £700?

Apple: don’t use Face ID on an iPhone X if you’re under 13 or have a twin

Facial recognition system is 20 times more secure than Touch ID, but struggles with young users and siblings

iPhone 8: glass back ‘very difficult’ to repair and costs more than screen to replace

Apple’s ‘most durable glass ever in a smartphone’ claim likely to be put to the test with first iPhone 8 accidents, but repairs won’t be cheap, reports say

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange boxes have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup

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