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Kenya’s tech entrepreneurs shun Konza ‘silicon savannah’

With a booming tech sector in Nairobi, investors and entrepreneurs are questioning the wisdom of building $14bn techno city nearby

Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads

Firm failed to tell consumers that iOS 8 software could take up as much as 23.1% of advertised storage capacity, claims lawyer

Sony hackers may still have access to computer systems

News report says investigators are unable to confirm eradication of those responsible for cyber-attack linked to The Interview

2015 gears up to be the year of wearable tech

Apple Watch forecast to deliver spring boost to sales

Gamergate: Swedish gaming companies tackle sexism in video games

The industry has been catering for the stereotypical male gamer for too long, but in Sweden games companies are taking action

Poor travel links ‘stop UK tech competing with Silicon Valley’

Leading UK entrepreneurs call for boost in infrastructure to make Boris Johnson’s ‘golden triangle’ a reality

Square’s global launch needs to tighten up fast, or it’s going nowhere

Jack Dorsey’s payment startup has launched globally – but the incomplete rollout gives competitors space to breath

Women ‘belittled, underappreciated and underpaid’ in tech industry

Guardian survey into attitudes towards women in technology industry reveals widespread sexism in the sector and unequal pay. By Hannah Jane Parkinson

Who gets the best return on stock-market investments? Not finance professionals

Is financial expertise overrated? A new study from the ‘Yelp of investing’ shows that finance professionals make less money in the stock markets than people in other industries – perhaps because banking experts know it pays to be wary

The GCHQ boss is wrong. We can have both security and privacy

Julian Huppert: Robert Hannigan’s attack on tech firms is a worrying sign that the intelligence services still don’t understand the need for transparency and accountability

EU commits €14.4m to support open data across Europe

New funding for startups, research and academy hopes to fuel open-data skills and adoption through the Open Data Institute co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. By Samuel Gibbs

Republicans make a play for Silicon Valley, ‘the country’s largest ATM’

Conservative politicians such as Rand Paul and Chris Christie are making inroads among the billionaires of ‘the country’s largest ATM’

Facebook share price falters after warning on costs

Social network reports positive quarterly results but then admits that costs will rise and revenues will slow

Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US

Investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting documents how exploitation persists – through humiliation, intimidation and legal threats

Should we be concerned about Placemeter – an app which monitors street views from apartment windows?

Placemeter pays New Yorkers to suction-cup an old smartphone to their window, then records and analyses what’s happening outside

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  • The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue
  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened
  • ‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
  • Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully
  • UK 16 and 17-year-olds: we would like to hear your views on the government’s social media ban for under-16s
  • ‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert
  • ‘What’s the opposite of a gay demon?’: The creepy new Australian horror film that’s getting global buzz
  • One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts
  • Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens strongly at box office as Obsession, Backrooms – and Michael – smash records
  • Ian McKellen says he imagined destroying Mar-a-Lago for new Avengers movie
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • The Toymaker’s Key review – steampunk sci-fi animation is eclectic if overwrought
  • How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
  • ‘Loving our country sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser’: Robert De Niro leads crowd in rallying cry against Trump
  • Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK
  • The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’
  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • 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

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