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Dyson hoovers up £801m profit in Asian spending boom

Almost 75% of growth comes from growing far east markets as Dyson sales hit £3.5bn

Apple to launch ‘technology enabled’ healthcare service

Following Amazon’s lead, iPhone maker creating in-house clinics and health service for employees

Is it worth buying a cordless vacuum cleaner?

Will pricey brands such as Dyson really pick up the dirt, or should I stick with a conventional one?

Netflix: would you be happy to pay more for the streaming service?

Shows such as Stranger Things and Altered Carbon have got us talking – some might argue subscribing is relatively cheap

Is this the beginning of the end for cash? Readers on the rise of digitised payments

We asked you about the UK’s declining cash usage and the difference it makes to your lives. Here’s what some of you said

NatWest Bank tests Cora, an AI bot that will answer customer questions

Bank promises life-like experience with artificial intelligence system

Should I let my neighbours use my wifi?

I’m worried I won’t be able to watch Netflix at the same time, or they may visit dodgy sites

Should I use Spotify for streaming or sign up to another service?

My brother’s a keen fan of their ad-free service – but what Amazon, Apple and Deezer?

No laptops allowed – the cafes bringing back the art of conviviality

A growing number of cafes are ditching wifi and outlawing computers in an attempt to bring back old-fashioned hospitality – and increase their revenue

BT broadband user charged £5,000 after exceeding usage limit

My grandmother unwittingly bust her allowance – and the charges add up to thousands

BT to hire 3,000 engineers in drive to fill broadband ‘not-spots’

BT Openreach push to provide ultrafast service to 1m more homes and firms than planned

Automation to take 1 in 3 jobs in UK’s northern centres, report finds

Workers in Wakefield and Mansfield worst affected as tech advances risk widening north-south divide

‘A sign that you’re not keeping up’ – the trouble with Hotmail in 2018

Car insurers have been accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts. But how did the once-popular address end up with a bad rep?

Boohoo says its ‘sale’ will end in minutes – why is it back in a couple of hours?

Countdown clocks and phrases such as ‘hurry now’ are used to to panic shoppers into buying

The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items an hour

Aaron Callaway is 24 and works four nights a week alongside robots in the retailer’s warehouse

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  • 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
  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories

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