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Be a sim-only saver: could you join the phone users shunning bundles?

More people are switching to deals with greater flexibility and value, and there are a growing number of providers

How to split the bill without causing long-term divisions

Whether you’re eating out or settling up households costs, here are ways to make it as fair and painless as possible

UK bans £2.2bn ‘sneaky’ fees and fake reviews for online products

New law aims to eliminate added costs that can be up to 25% of retail price

How to use AI to get a job interview and nail it – along with the salary you deserve

Supercharge your search and beat the screening, sharpen your speaking skills and boost your negotiating position

‘Sim farms’, high heels, zombie knives: what scammers buy with the money they steal

A haul of items seized by police reveals the scale and threat of payment fraud – a crime that can have significant emotional impact on victims

School dinner payment app criticised for £10 refund fee

After pulling out of the market Squid is charging parents who want to withdraw their remaining funds

Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hoped

Nordic countries were early adopters of digital payments. Now, electronic banking is seen as a potential threat to national security

Bank and building society users hit by 33 days of outages in two years, say MPs

Treasury committee finds disruption a result of 158 IT incidents affecting millions of customers

Rest of Europe should follow Denmark’s lead in banning phones in schools, says expert

Chair of Danish wellbeing commission says whole continent should halt digitalisation of children’s lives

Revealed: the scammers who conned savers out of $35m using fake celebrity ads

Georgia-based group used deepfake videos and false news featuring Martin Lewis, Zoe Ball and Ben Fogle used to promote fraudulent crypto schemes

Haggle, bundle or switch: how to get the best UK broadband deal

Choose the speed that’s right for you, beware of price rises at renewal time and consider ditching your landline

Mental health crisis ‘means youth is no longer one of happiest times of life’

UN-commissioned study in UK, US, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand finds satisfaction rises with age

‘They’ve lost my trust’: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump

Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – including during Friday’s planned ‘economic blackout’

UK-wide parking app may be out of road after government funding withdrawn

Five-year-old platform intended to make drivers’ lives easier will only be supported until the end of March

How to navigate apps, from checking safety to remembering passwords

Our consumer technology editor offers tips to help you find your way through the technical maze

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  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange boxes have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
  • Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Should you send that midnight text? 11 essential rules for phone etiquette
  • The best films of 2026 so far

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