iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-repaired screens

Software update disables touchscreen on £700-plus smartphones that have not had their screens repaired by Apple

Should we be working less, and how safe is going cash-free?

This week’s edition of Upside looks at experimental projects that offer a peek into the future

UK mobile operators pay close to £1.4bn for 5G spectrum

Ofcom auction beats expectations as EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three splash out to secure bandwidth for superfast mobile broadband

How do you make poverty sound better? Rebrand it!

Having to take several jobs and sending kids to work used to be a sign of living precariously – now it’s just a question of what your ‘side hustle’ is

‘Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack’: Swedes turn against cashlessness

Sweden’s central bank governor has called for public control over its payment system. Others say a fully digital system is vulnerable to fraud and attack

Smart meters: customers say they can’t get firms to install them

Each month energy suppliers are putting 400,000 smart meters into UK homes. But 1m are needed to hit the 2020 target

We fear robots at work, but robotic jobs for humans are awful too

Even in workplaces where judgment used to count, people are increasingly treated like machines, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

If we truly cared about poor people, low-wage Britain wouldn’t exist

There are policies to tackle insecure work and poverty pay. But the first thing is to address the mindset that allows exploitation, says writer and journalist James Bloodworth