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Do I really need fibre broadband?

Angela is a light internet user and is wondering if she could make do with an older, slower ADSL service

Five best phone grips to stop smashed screens

If your phone is a bit too big, your hand hurts or you frequently drop it, these cheap accessories can help

Unilever saves on recruiters by using AI to assess job interviews

System analyses body language and word choice, but polling suggests public are opposed

Google to add eye detection to Pixel 4 after privacy concerns

Update will prevent new smartphone being unlocked using owner’s sleeping face

Amazon seller offered ‘bribe’ to leave great review for product

The wall stud finder cost just £13.60 but I was offered £15.60 to highly rate it

One in three councils using algorithms to make welfare decisions

Machine-learning packages deployed despite evidence they are unreliable

The Domino’s ‘pizza checker’ is just the beginning – workplace surveillance is coming for you

The company, which uses a smart scanner to analyse whether food has been made correctly, is far from the only business to use tech to track workers, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Facebook’s Libra must meet strict standards, says Bank of England

Digital currency must be subject to measures such as stress tests to gain approval

Ready, text, go: typing speeds on mobiles rival keyboard users

Global test finds those using two-thumb technique can hit a blistering 38 words per minute

Centrica to use customers’ hot water tanks to stop blackouts

British Gas owner to harness smart appliances to help balance National Grid

Five of the best mobile phones – whatever your budget

You can get great phones at almost any price – here’s a guide to some of the best around

Lastminute.com wouldn’t accept my gift card for a holiday

The website said ‘no’ even though the voucher clearly said ‘yes’ it was valid

Postcode loophole enables fraudsters to hijack eBay parcels

Refunds to buyers rely on Royal Mail tracking using postcodes rather than signatures, and it’s helping thieves

Slow digital services are marginalising rural areas, MPs warn

Lack of fast-broadband and 5G make country communities feel ‘second-class’, MPs say

UK economy has ‘too few robots’, warn MPs

Committee damns government for failing to encourage investment and boost productivity

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  • 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
  • UK attorney general tells department to stop using X amid 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
  • ‘It makes no sense’: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban
  • The best power banks and battery packs in the UK for reliable charging on the go, tested
  • Teddie Beverley obituary

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