Those in US given chance to have more professional usernames without losing access to account

Did your McLovin!1976!@gmail.com email address seem funny at the time but less so now you are applying for dozens of jobs?

Google has said it is g

In week five of Rhik Samadder’s diary, our resident AI skeptic decided to let AI take the lead on a date. If uncanny valley was a conversational style, it’s this

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Max and Chloe, the two teen protagonists of the 2015 game, reunite as adults – giving players the chance to finally finish their journey

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Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations

At 194 years old, Jonathan the giant tortoise was a youngster when Queen Victoria ascended to the throne – and has now lived long

Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solving

Pupils using artificial intelligence are losing their capacity for critical thinking, according to a survey of secondary school teacher

Anonymous activist Martha Root on how she hacked into, and took down, a dating site for white supremacists. With reporting from investigative journalist Eva Hoffman

There’s a dating site for everyone: Jdate for Jews, Muzz for Muslims and Raya for

Ofcom research shows people also concerned old posts could affect personal or professional life

Social media users in the UK are becoming less active on tech platforms due to the rise of video apps and fears that posts could come back to haunt th

Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after ‘human error’, raising fresh security questions at the AI company

Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant, Claude Code, due to “hum

Distressed riders who were stranded for hours say Apollo Go customer service agents offered ‘useless platitudes’

A “system malfunction” has caused several self-driving robotaxis to stall in the middle of the road in China, police have confirmed,

How much do you know about the history of one of the most powerful computing companies on the planet?

In the 50 years since it was founded, Apple has long been seen as one of the most significant technology companies globally. The design and manu

We are paying more for a PlayStation so that idiots can use ChatGPT to mislead people on dating apps – something is rotten in the state of gaming

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Head of committee says it was appropriate for government to seek guidance on way out of £330m deal with US data company

Claims by Palantir that concerns over the US data analytics company’s multimillion-pound NHS contract are “ideologically motiv

Company chaired by Trump ally Larry Ellison seeks to reassure investors that bet on AI infrastructure will pay off

Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet on AI infrastructure will

From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum’s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming’s cultural clout

In the grand entrance of the Victoria &am

Calls for tougher laws as network stretching from Caribbean to Georgia generates riches for offshore tycoons by appearing to prey on the vulnerable

Immaculately groomed and beaming from ear to ear, Andres Markou looks every inch the golden

Two-thirds of teenagers are still on social media platforms included in the ban, according to the eSafety commissioner

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Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?

Lately, I’ve been hearing Judi Dench’s voice in my head. She t

Milpitas approves measure to distribute smart doorbells and says residents can upload footage to police database

A Silicon Valley city will offer its residents free wireless doorbells equipped with cameras to help police collect video evidence.…

Company said it achieved valuation of $852bn, mentioning in a blogpost it generates $2bn a month in revenue

OpenAI announced on Tuesday it had closed a fundraising round of $122bn and achieved a valuation of $852bn. The funding cements the ChatGP

Publisher alleges AI research company’s chatbot violated its copyright over Coconut the Little Dragon series

Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging its chatbot ChatGPT violated copyright by mimicking and reproducing the

For many young people entering the workforce, the stigma of hands-on jobs is fading. There is a competitive appeal – and they all require human expertise

Gib and Michelle Mouser are proud of their son’s career – just not in the way they once imag

Meta claims social media addiction isn’t real. Juries disagree

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor for the Guardian. I’m hoping futilely for warm spring weather in New York City, but while it’s still c

As calls for restrictions on under-16s’ online activities gather pace, some are urging curbs on online gaming. The idea is a mess from top to bottom

Last week, Meta and YouTube were found liable for creating intentionally addictive products that

Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics company

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Palantir’s UK boss has urged the government not to give in to “ideologicall

Meta, Tiktok and Google being investigated for allegedly disobeying Australia’s social media ban

The Australian government has accused big tech firms like Meta, TikTok and Google of disobeying the landmark ban on under-16s using social media, aft

The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after ‘casting its net too wide’

If OpenAI is going to float this year, it has to get serious about its business model. The wow factor around the US company –

Snappy performance, high-quality screen, best-in-class keyboard and trackpad show cheaper can still be great

Apple’s brand new entry-level laptop is powered by the chip from an iPhone and offers more than just the essential MacBook experience for

Gavin Newsom signs order to prioritize public safety and rights as president seeks to prevent ‘cumbersome’ rules

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Tim Sweeney, chief of firm that created Fortnite, received backlash after worker’s wife revealed loss of life insurance

The chief of the company that created Fortnite, a popular online game, has issued an apology following backlash after recent m

Apple Distribution International, based in Ireland, made payments worth £635,000 to a Russian streaming service

The UK government has fined a subsidiary of Apple £390,000 for breaching sanctions against Moscow over payments it made to a Russian s

Slumped on the pavement, she wasn’t breathing – and I wouldn’t have realised if I’d been listening to music as usual. Time to stop blotting out the world …

For years I walked the streets of London wearing noise-cancelling headphones, absorbed in

When Ubokobong Amanam lost his fingers in an accident he teamed up with his brother John, a special effects artist, to design a prosthetic that suited him – now they run a thriving business

On a humid morning in Uyo, Nigeria, Ubokobong Amanam sh

Reporter Aisha Down explores the UK’s ‘phantom investments’ in AI, and the risk the government has taken in betting so heavily on the technology if it all goes bust

For years now, the UK has bet big on AI. As Keir Starmer put it last year, he wan

Other commenters helped me diagnose the problem. When I couldn’t afford the solution, someone I knew only by his handle offered to pay

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In his strongest intervention yet, PM says some features ‘shouldn’t be permitted’, while education secretary says things ‘are going to change’

Keir Starmer has backed banning addictive social media features in his strongest intervention yet on cu

Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies

When Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sought to defend itself in the landmark social media addiction

US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’

Recently, the literary agent Kate Nash started noticing that the submission letters she was receiving from authors wer

Leonid Radvinsky’s widow has been left with a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaire

Yekaterina Chudnovsky, online biographies say, is a mother-of-four who “enjoys spending time with her family a

Some doctors argue it allows them to better connect with patients, but advocates warn the AI technology risks the opposite

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Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

If you had been keeping tabs on the news about church attendance in Britain lately, you would be forgiven for thinking the country was in the

AI images of people – such as women in military contexts – are making money and serving as propaganda, researchers say

Online content creators are not just building fake images and videos of prominent public figures, they are also fabricating peo

Do we really need a McDonald’s CEO fronting ads or a Gianni Infantino Panini sticker? No. But in the age of Trump, the boss class feels emboldened

A few weeks ago, the CEO of McDonald’s appeared in a video sampling the chain’s new “Big Arch burge

Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for social media

The young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagr

Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures

Sony is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the US, marking its second hike in le

Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid ‘mounting evidence’ of harmful impact

The government has issued new guidance on how much time children below the age of five should spend on screens.

Children’s relationshi

Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits

Wikipedia has banned the use of artificial intelligence in the generation or rewriting of content for its voluminous online encyclopedia.

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Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission

AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into

Retail sims aren’t my thing, but the tactile, nostalgic pleasures of hit indie title Retro Rewind have me yearning for the era of physical media, smoking indoors and uncomplicated geopolitics

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Keir Starmer promises to help parents limit children’s online activity as government issues guidance to families

Children under five should spend no more than an hour a day on screens, new government advice says.

Screen time for children un