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  • Jobseekers view a 'Get a job' sign at a London employment fair

    Youth unemployment
    Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready

    Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisis
  • A Flock Safety license plate reader camera mounted atop a pole against a cloudy sky

    US
    Flock Safety tries to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals

  • Woman looking at mobile phone screen

    Online dating
    As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?

  • An illustration showing green 'agents' and one red 'agent'.

    AI
    AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?

  • Taipei's skyline at dusk, with a tall spired skyscraper towering over the city and misty mountains beyond

    Hacking
    Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack

  • AI Work

    Reworked
    AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?

  • Mark Zuckerberg, wearing Meta glasses, gestures while speaking on stage

    Exclusive
    Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

  • Close-up of shadowy hands typing on a laptop keyboard in dim light

    A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearing

  • Aerial view of a Hillsborough mansion with a long reflecting pool, fountain and manicured gardens

    San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion

  • A screenshot of the AI persona labelling on an AI artist's profile on Spotify

    Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them

  • A North Sea oil rig at dusk

    AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

Spotlight

  • A portable air conditioning unit on a wooden floor

    Do I really need air conditioning in the UK? The best portable aircon tested – plus the pros, cons and alternatives

  • A person on a bike riding a wheelie.

    Are teens on e-motorbikes the ‘new Hells Angels’? Not so fast, boomers

  • students walk along a covered bridge

    Schools across the US banned phones. Teens are demanding more offline support

  • Four different video doorbell devices with cameras are arranged against a teal and green background

    I spent 18 months testing the best video doorbells – here are my favourites

Opinion & analysis

  • Sam Altman walks outdoors in a suit and light blue tie, smiling, arriving for a meeting

    The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy

  • Army of robotsEAANN7 Army of robots

    double quotation markOne of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about AI. Could his ideas help us avoid a dystopian future?

    Alan Finkel
  • In advertising, Meta describes their AI glasses as 'iconic style meets Meta AI'. However, online backlash against these glasses has been swift. Watch as Guardian columnist and Opinion editor Kirsty Major dives into why fears of surveillance and 'creepy men' mean Meta can never convince her to love the glasses

    Why I'll never be convinced by Meta's ‘pervert’ glasses | Opinion

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  • Technicians work on a lithography machine at ASML

    Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy

  • A biomechanical alien creature with an elongated head crouches menacingly in a dark corridor

    Alien: Isolation 2 – another strong female protagonist stalked in a terrifying new world

    Creative Assembly could strike gold again with this follow-up to their fan-favourite, film-inspired game … if you’re brave enough to venture outdoors
  • A gun is held up at a very polygonal enemy. The floor has a pattern and there are bookshelves.

    Agent 64: Spies Never Die review – licence to kill time like the 90s never ended

  • Star Fox title screen showing fox, bird, frog, and rabbit character faces.

    Why we’re going back to the games of our youth

    Newsletter
  • A person in goggles in a cramped interior, hand on some machinery

    Carcass Clad: stifling tank combat promises tension, terror and surprising laughs

  • Four Marvel characters stand in a line, poised to fight

    Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls review – an anime-style rumble that’s rooting for you

  • San Jose CA aerial skyline taken 06/16/2021 silicon valley hub urbanscapeAn aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

    A timely warning on the rise of the ‘tech bros’ from the author of The Nerd Reich

  • A bald man with a dark beard wears a dark-blue workwear-style jacket over a shirt, his hands in the pockets

    ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

  • A crowd gathers around a large blue cylindrical display showing "Hello, World!" in multiple languages at a trade show

    China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

  • techunions

    How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table

Reviews

  • A hand holds a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra smartphone showing its closed home screen with app icons.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: the top dog of folding Androids

  • A closed Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 smartphone with home screen visible rests atop a British passport on a wooden table.

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: your passport to a folding phone future

  • Three microwaves displayed against a green and yellow grid background

    The best microwaves in the UK for every kitchen and budget – tested

  • Projected images of two men in suits are layered with text and small sculptural figures on a table

    Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac

In depth

  • Meta’s tech has prompted concerns about privacy and surveillance.

    ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

  • Rhys, right, was sent this photo of himself taken at a Melbourne cafe by a stranger wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses

    This man was secretly snapped by someone with smartglasses. He’s not alone in calling that a violation of privacy

  • Person wearing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses

    ‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion

  • A hand offering an apple to a younger one

    Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech

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