Beat the ‘crunch’: new union for video games workers launches

Game Workers Unite UK will take aim at unpaid overtime, racism and sexism in sector

Uber pushed for UK congestion charges that would hit poor hardest

Guardian freedom of information request reveals details of talks between Uber chief and Chris Grayling

Europe’s tech startups suffer from ‘diversity debt’, survey finds

Study by investment firm finds 85% of funding deals are made with all-male founding teams

No-deal Brexit would ‘devastate’ UK gaming industry, says report

Authors claim hard Brexit or no deal threatens videogaming’s status as British success story

The Guardian view on Zuckerberg’s Facebook: regulate it as a media firm

Editorial: As long as social media – unregulated – is allowed to spread prejudice and falsehood, and build a dominant position in advertising, it is a threat to democracy

Can software bring women’s pay up to men’s? This tech entrepreneur thinks so

Zara Nanu says her software provides the data needed to tackle pay inequality across gender, race and even region. She shares some of her findings and how her Soviet background inspired her

Does Apple’s sales slump mean the firm has finally peaked?

The company’s $1tn valuation has fallen 20% and fewer people are buying its iPhones

Can the tech sector thrive outside London?

An appetite for collaboration is helping clusters across the north of England to flourish - but there are also key issues holding them back

Without a fair tax on tech, it could be the end of the state as we know it

Big tech companies are transforming society without contributing to it, says the Guardian columnist John Harris

Toshiba’s failure shows business can’t deliver a nuclear future

As Cumbria reactor plan stalls, it is clear that huge resources are needed for such projects

EU stumbles in plan to levy 3% digital tax on major firms

Agreement to take action against companies such as Facebook and Google runs into opposition

Apple’s value dips below $1tn amid fears of iPhone sales peak

Investors take fright at slowing forecasts and withholding of number of handsets sold

Twitter shares leap after revenue and profit beat expectations

Company’s shares up 14% in pre-market trading despite 9 million drop in users

‘This is Wakanda’: the black tech entrepreneurs taking on Silicon Valley

In the 2000s, most investors would hear that a tech company was from Atlanta and immediately say, ‘No.’ But great universities and a strong black middle class have turned the tables

‘Tech tax’ necessary to avoid dystopia, says leading economist

Jeffrey Sachs warns AI could lead to wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few thousand people