$10,000 a second? Amazon’s results could be amazing

The retailer’s quarterly figures will have received a huge boost from lockdown sales

The expansion of mass surveillance to stop coronavirus should worry us all

No matter how much we want to return to ‘normal’, we must be wary of additional for-profit use of our data

When Covid-19 has done with us, what will be the new normal?

From online GPs and home working to smartphone tracking, the speed at which we are embracing technology is unprecedented – but can we trust it?

Coronavirus ventilator wins UK approval in run-up to NHS rollout

Penlon’s ESO2 device becomes first model to get green light from UK’s healthcare regulator

Volunteers create world’s fastest supercomputer to combat coronavirus

Participants are ‘folding proteins’ on home PCs, a task that could prove instrumental in tackling disease

Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic, experts say

Coronavirus crisis has led to billions of people around the world facing enhanced monitoring

The cure for fake news: how to read about the coronavirus

The outbreak has generated a tsunami of information. Here’s how to sift the fact from the fiction

What I’m really watching: tool restoration videos

Continuing our series on viewing habits in self-isolation, one writer finds peace is restored by online restoration videos. Roll on the barn find oil lamp!

‘Magic toilet’ could monitor users’ health, say researchers

System of sensors and cameras would turn loo into ‘daily clinic’ and detect problems early

Dangerous cures and viral hoaxes: common coronavirus myths busted

With so much misinformation about Covid-19 circulating online, we’ve factchecked some of the more common fallacies

Ventilator crisis lands Britain’s manufacturers with greatest test

Dozens of companies have pooled resources in an attempt to produce tens of thousands of machines as Covid-19 strikes

Pandemic shaming: is it helping us keep our distance?

The Covid-19 outbreak has generated fresh wave of finger-pointing on social media. But does public shaming help change behaviour?

The Guardian view on immunity passports: an idea whose time has not come

Editorial: A phone app seems better than a passport as a way out of the lockdown. This system will need to be temporary, installed at users’ discretion and have privacy at its core

China’s coronavirus health code apps raise concerns over privacy

Apps, which allow people to move around after lockdown, have become an integral part of Chinese authorities’ management of citizens

NHS developing app to trace close contacts of coronavirus carriers

Technology is nearly ready for use and would also tell people when they should self-isolate