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Fidget spinner toys pose risk of serious injury, tests show

Warning over children’s craze after experts find poor-quality imports with edges sharp enough to puncture skin and eyes

World’s lamest cyborg? My microchip isn’t cool now – but it could be the future

Olivia Solon felt more key fob than RoboCop after getting implanted with a microchip to make contactless purchases. But the future could hold much more

Dyson does well – but beware those taking its name in vain

It offers great customer service, but there are those trying to fraudulently trade off it

‘We have not been impressed so far’: do obnoxious job ads ever work?

Injecting humour, personality or criticisms into a job ad can be a risky business – as one south London theatre recently discovered

Provident Personal Credit fined for sending 1m spam texts

Information commissioner acts after consumers are bombarded with messages promoting firm’s Satsuma Loans

Chip: the robot banker trying to pull millennials out of their overdrafts

Find yourself in the red every month? Can’t seem to budget responsibly? Chip could be for you – if you don’t mind it snooping around your bank account

Cool Britannia symbolised hope – but all it delivered was a culture of inequality

It’s 20 years since Tony Blair reshaped Britain’s economy around the arts, yet the project’s legacy is an exploitative sector dominated by people from an astonishingly small demographic pool

Can you buy anything real with Bitcoin? On the streets of Bristol, it proves a hard sell

The digital currency can now be bought at ATMs around the country

BT tops complaints league for broadband and pay-TV users

Telecoms group’s subsidiaries Plusnet and EE also attract high level of complaints, while Sky has fewest disgruntled users

Smart meter rollout could force household bills to rise, says supplier

Energy company warns rising cost of installations due to ‘customer apathy’ could prompt suppliers to increase tariffs

Is it safer to use an app or a browser for banking?

Irene wants to know why she should use a banking app instead of logging into her bank accounts with the Edge browser in Windows 10 | Ask Jack

Government inspectors should enforce workers’ rights, says Law Society

Legal body responds to concerns over ‘gig economy’ firms such as Uber and Deliveroo amid slide in tribunal cases

I need the right KnowHow to fix my son’s laptop

It has gone back to PC World for a third time and I don’t think it’s fit for purpose

Every time I contact TalkTalk I get a fake email from scammers

It seems the phone company is still having problems with data breaches

Why doesn’t Google play fair with my cancellation?

I signed up for a free trial but was then charged

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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

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