Softbank’s $4bn profit on US tech bets hasn’t impressed investors
Masayoshi Son looks like a gambler on a lucky streak so it’s no wonder shares in his firm were down 7%
The UK’s online ID plans: expensive, intrusive, unnecessary
Of all the ways to reshape society after the pandemic, a digital identity system should not be anyone’s priority, says Gracie Mae Bradley of Liberty
From viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws
Are Love Island stars really the best people to advise us on test and trace?
Our government is surely marooned and desperate when it recruits reality TV stars to explain its coronavirus control system
The Guardian view on a Brexit industrial strategy: theatre but no policy
Editorial: Does taking back control mean transferring authority from Westminster to Washington? It must do because Boris Johnson won’t say otherwise as sovereignty over unique British microprocessor know-how slips into US hands
Treasury denies it plans to drop ‘Facebook tax’ in favour of trade deal
Recently introduced tax expected to raise £500m, helping to reduce Britain’s huge Covid bill
On my radar: Jess Phillips’s cultural highlights
The MP on her love of jigsaws, a brilliant cocktail bar, and watching old films at her favourite cinema
Labour ramps up Facebook advertising in wake of exams fiasco
Party ran thousands of ads on social media platform in bid to overhaul its digital operations
MPs criticise privacy watchdog over NHS test-and-trace data
UK information commissioner ‘must ensure government uses public’s data safely and legally’
It’s not just A-levels – algorithms have a nightmarish new power over our lives
The problems with this kind of decision-making are clear, yet such methods are increasingly used in opaque and frightening ways, writes Arwa Mahdawi
Maureen Lipman: ‘I’d have to be stark raving mad to support Boris Johnson’
Trans actors, Palestine, Tony Blair, typecasting, socialists with multiple houses … as she stars in Rose, a play that covers everything from the Holocaust to the six-day war, the actor lets rip
Truss leads China hawks trying to derail TikTok’s London HQ plan
Any last-minute reversal could lead to further deterioration in UK-China relations
England’s Covid contact-tracing app will reach 70% of those at risk
Tech will tell users who spend 15 minutes within 2 metres of another app user who has tested positive to self-isolate
UK minister attacks Ben & Jerry’s ‘virtue signalling’ on refugees
James Cleverly criticises ice-cream company for Twitter posts about Channel crossings
Government paid Vote Leave AI firm to analyse UK citizens’ tweets
Faculty, linked to senior Tories, hired to collect tweets as part of coronavirus-related contract