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The Guardian’s view on free speech online: a messy compromise

Editorial: Rightwing extremists are now being deprived of their income stream from YouTube advertisements. Not to do so would be worse

Five of the best wireless earbuds: a guide for all budgets

We pick earbuds to suit a range of budgets, from Apple Airpods to Samsung Galaxy Buds and more

Morrisons free to use Amazon and Deliveroo in looser Ocado deal

Online grocer eases restrictions as it covets more warehouse space to fulfil its own orders

Menopause health has ‘few specialists and a lot of myths’ – can tech change that?

Health technology catering to women has covered fertility, periods, mental wellbeing and more. Now tech entrepreneurs are catering to the 13 million women in menopause

Mobile and broadband: UK’s best and worst providers revealed

Tesco Mobile is network with poorest customer service with TalkTalk at bottom of broadband league

Police Scotland warns of rise in teens targeted as money mules

Gangs recruit schoolchildren to move the proceeds of crime through their own accounts

I sent my iPhone to a recycling company and haven’t been paid

I checked the reviews on a comparison website and they were uniformly glowing

Fake reviews: How the Facebook ‘factories’ are still ripping us off

Months after a Which? investigation into the manufacture of misleading reviews most are still active

Flood of ‘fake’ five-star reviews inundating Amazon, Which? finds

Unverified reviews may be being used to artificially boost products, says consumer group

Smart speakers: five ways to get one on the cheap

Want to dip your toe in the voice-controlled world of Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant? Here are best, cheapest ways to start

‘I’m an Orkney librarian driving to a school when a wave engulfs my van’

My job as a librarian in Orkney involves hair raising commutes as well as running coding clubs and a community service

UK’s big broadband providers give ‘shoddy’ service – report

TalkTalk, Sky, Virgin and BT rank worst in annual customer survey by Which?

Are we not all Lorraine Kelly, playing versions of ourselves?

The queen of light entertainment has opened an existential can of worms by convincing HMRC there are two Lorraine Kellys, says Richard Godwin

Instagram users will be able to buy from brands on platform

‘Checkout on Instagram’ is new e-commerce service available to US customers

MPs call for Viagogo boycott and shake-up of ticket touting laws

Committee’s report on live music industry also criticises Google for promoting website

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  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
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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
  • 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
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
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  • 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
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  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35

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