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Google ‘faces €1bn-plus fine’ from EU over market dominance

Tech giant could receive record penalty for favouring its comparison shopping service in its search result pages

Apple chief: driverless car venture is ‘the mother of all AI projects’

Tim Cook confirms tech giant is working on ‘autonomous systems’, but is tight-lipped on whether it is making its own vehicle

Shaken it off! Taylor Swift ends Spotify spat

Singer ends three-year boycott of streaming service over royalties and makes entire back catalogue available to celebrate 10m sales of 1989 album

Uber fires more than 20 employees after sexual harassment investigation

Company has been taking steps to change culture following scandals that appeared to demonstrate aggressive business practices and a toxic workplace

Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters

More worrying than the internet’s role in the rise of far-right populism is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us: AI and and ‘crypto-anarchists’ are radically restructuring life – and politics – as we know it

Google submits plans for ‘landscraper’ London headquarters

Construction on building that is longer than the Shard is tall set to begin in King’s Cross in 2018

Nintendo’s share price hits seven-year high as Switch sales soar

Hybrid between a home console and a handheld machine looks set to be games company’s first big hit since the Wii

In Europe political attitudes to Facebook are changing

Latest fine shows tech giants increasingly seen as destructive and obstructive, whether on tax, privacy or competition law

WannaCry attack lifts shares in cybersecurity firm Sophos to record high

Oxfordshire-based firm inundated with calls in wake of last week’s ransomware attack on NHS and other businesses

Improbable sums? Cambridge graduates’ tech firm raises $500m

British virtual simulation startup launched just five years ago is valued at more than $1bn after funding from Japan’s Softbank

New Uber blow as European legal adviser says service should be licensed like taxis

US ride-hailing app argued it is digital service, but ECJ advocate general says it should be regulated as transport company

Alleged labour abuses: Panasonic and Samsung reforms fall short, say activists

Rights groups welcome steps to improve treatment of migrant workers after Guardian revealed claims of exploitation in supply chains in Malaysia, but say more must be done

UK technology firms turn to Silicon Valley to ward off Brexit blues

Industry leaders from the north of England have embarked on mission San Francisco to woo top dealmakers in the US

Snapchat ‘will be bigger than Twitter, Yahoo and AOL with advertisers’

Messaging app forecast to attract revenues of $3bn a year by 2019 by attracting hard-to-reach youth market

Google to overhaul advertising policies after growing boycott

‘We deeply apologise,’ says company’s CBO Philipp Schindler as he announces tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content

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  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
  • The Guide #246: Does World Cup fever leave you in a cold sweat? Here’s how to escape the footie
  • UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
  • From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • ‘Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?’ Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein, giving away billions, and her post-divorce peace
  • The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone
  • Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses
  • How much money did Elon Musk make in SpaceX’s stock market debut?
  • Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX ends trading day with valuation of $2.1tn – as it happened
  • SpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut, making Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
  • Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’
  • The SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply
  • UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps
  • David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
  • What World Cup? US celebrities get their fashion kicks from the Knicks

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