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Is the Nintendo Switch the best console of its generation – or just the most meaningful to me?

Published: May 21, 2025 14:00

For years, the Switch has been ​a companion through life’s changes​, gaming milestones​ and a lifeline to fun in chaotic timesThe lifespan of a games console has extended a lot since I was a child. In the 1990s, this kind of technology would be out of date…

Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple

Published: May 21, 2025 13:57

Legal dispute resolved over popular video game ousted from store in 2020 in dispute over commissionThe popular video game Fortnite has returned to the iPhone app store in the US, ending a prolonged exile that was triggered by a legal showdown over the fees…

Scattered Spider is focus of NCA inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers

Published: May 21, 2025 10:48

Detectives say English-speaking hacker community a key suspect after M&S, Co-op and Harrods targetedBusiness live – latest updatesA hacker community known as Scattered Spider is a key suspect in a criminal inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers…

US chip export controls are a ā€˜failure’ because they spur Chinese development, Nvidia boss says

Published: May 21, 2025 05:25

Comments from Jensen Huang come as Beijing accuses the US of ā€˜bullying and protectionism’ US chip exports controls have been a ā€œfailureā€, the head of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, told a tech forum on Wednesday, as the Chinese government separately slammed US…

ā€˜Every person that clashed with him has left’: the rise, fall and spectacular comeback of Sam Altman

Published: May 21, 2025 04:00

From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wieldsThe short-lived firing of Sam Altman,…

Elon Musk claims he will step back from political donations in near future

Published: May 20, 2025 17:50

After spending nearly $300m to help elect Trump last year, the tech billionaire says he has ā€˜done enough’US politics live – latest updatesElon Musk claimed on Tuesday that he would decrease the amount of money he spends on politics for the foreseeable…

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds

Published: May 19, 2025 23:00

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ā€˜digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social mediaAlmost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.The research reveals that nearly…

Microsoft employee interrupts CEO’s keynote with pro-Palestinian protest

Published: May 19, 2025 18:27

Protester is engineer who worked on Azure software, which enabled Israeli surveillance of PalestiniansA Microsoft employee disrupted a keynote speech by the company’s chief executive with a pro-Palestinian protest at the company’s annual developer…

Bankrupt DNA testing firm 23andMe to be purchased for $256m

Published: May 19, 2025 15:55

Drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ capture of genetic testing firm in bankruptcy auction raises privacy concernsThe drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding for $256m through a bankruptcy auction, the…

AI can be more persuasive than humans in debates, scientists find

Published: May 19, 2025 15:00

Study author warns of implications for elections and says ā€˜malicious actors’ are probably using LLM tools alreadyArtificial intelligence can do just as well as humans, if not better, when it comes to persuading others in a debate, and not just because it…

The one change that worked: I’ve ditched streaming for CDs – and fallen in love with music all over again

Published: May 19, 2025 09:00

The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn’t enjoy, I’ve taken back control of my listeningWhen most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx…

ā€˜I was watching osprey for five hours a day’: how the world fell in love with nature live streams

Published: May 19, 2025 09:00

More and more people are hooked on watching animals in real time. Now researchers say it could even improve your mood, help you relax and give you better sleepIn 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she…

Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ā€˜programming error’ for its Holocaust denial

Published: May 18, 2025 14:41

Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ā€˜white genocide’ in South AfricaElon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a ā€œprogramming errorā€ to explain why it said it was ā€œscepticalā€ of the historical…

Elton John calls UK government ā€˜absolute losers’ over AI copyright plans

Published: May 18, 2025 13:24

Songwriter says he thinks it is a ā€˜criminal offence’ to let tech firms use protected work without permissionSir Elton John has called the UK government ā€œabsolute losersā€ over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission.The…

If Keir Starmer is not robotic enough for you, his AI twin is ready for your questions

Published: May 18, 2025 10:27

Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should beIf you are one of the few people on the planet who fancies a chat with Keir Starmer, then there’s a new AI…

Apple to launch new accessibility features for people with vision or hearing impairments

Published: May 18, 2025 06:44

Features launching later this year to include live captions, braille reader improvements and accessibility ā€˜nutrition labels’ in the app storeApple has announced a broad range of new accessibility features for iOS focused on people with vision or hearing…

Fortnite unavailable on iPhones globally after Apple rejects App Store release

Published: May 16, 2025 17:16

Latest twist in a contest between iPhone maker and Epic Games over payments for hit game on Apple devicesEpic Games says Fortnite is now unavailable on iPhones and iPads globally because Apple blocked a bid to release the popular video game in the App…

Scattered Spider hackers in UK are ā€˜facilitating’ cyber-attacks, says Google

Published: May 16, 2025 13:29

US retailers being targeted after attacks on Britain’s Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and HarrodsBusiness live – latest updatesUK-based members of the Scattered Spider hacking community are actively ā€œfacilitatingā€ cyber-attacks, according to Google, as…

Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ā€˜white genocide’

Published: May 16, 2025 10:32

xAI’s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald TrumpElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has blamed an ā€œunauthorised modificationā€ for a glitch in its Grok chatbot that resulted in…

Farm Simulator: 16bit Edition review – the simple joy of ploughing your own furrow

Published: May 16, 2025 08:00

Strictly Limited/Giants Software; Mega Drive It may be seem horrendously old-fashioned, but the seemingly dull repetition of working your wheat fields has a nostalgic pull like a combine harvesterWhen I got my first job in games journalism 30 years ago, I…

Trump agrees deal for UAE to build largest AI campus outside US

Published: May 16, 2025 01:35

Agreement that would give Gulf country better access to advanced AI chips raises concerns over Chinese influenceThe United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed an agreement for the Gulf country to build the largest artificial intelligence campus…

Australian girl, 11, sexually abused by stranger after adding him to get Snapchat points

Published: May 15, 2025 15:00

Then 23-year-old Jai Clapp was added to the girl’s Snapchat using the Quick Add feature as part of an informal competition with a friend to reach 100,000 pointsAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news…

Largest US crypto exchange says cost of recent cyber-attack could reach $400m

Published: May 15, 2025 14:32

Hackers paid overseas Coinbase employees for account data; company is offering $20m reward for informationThe biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the US forecast that a cyber-attack that breached account data of a ā€œsmall subsetā€ of its customers would cost…

Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ā€˜white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats

Published: May 15, 2025 01:07

X chatbot tells users it was ā€˜instructed by my creators’ to accept ā€˜white genocide as real and racially motivated’Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning ā€œwhite genocideā€ in South Africa in…

ā€˜Aggressive’ hackers of UK retailers are now targeting US stores, says Google

Published: May 14, 2025 19:24

Alphabet warns of ā€˜Scattered Spider’, network of hackers reportedly behind cyber-attack against UK retail giant M&SAlphabet’s Google warned on Wednesday that hackers responsible for paralyzing disruptions of UK retailers are turning their attention to…

Ministers block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted content

Published: May 14, 2025 18:19

Government uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data billMinisters have used an arcane parliamentary procedure to block an amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose…

Baroque breakout hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unlike any game you’ve played before

Published: May 14, 2025 14:00

This might be the most French game ever – but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle Ć©poque-inspired beauty than you thinkMuch has been made of the fact that the year’s most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called…

UK government to launch AI tool to speed up public consultations

Published: May 13, 2025 23:01

New system will analyse responses 1,000 times faster than a human and save millions, ministers claimAn AI tool has been used to review public responses to a government consultation for the first time and is now set to be rolled out more widely in an effort…

US tech firms secure AI deals as Trump tours Gulf states

Published: May 13, 2025 18:26

Nvidia to sell hundreds of thousands of AI chips in Saudi Arabia and Cisco also signs deal with UAE company G42A swath of US technology firms announced deals in the Middle East as Donald Trump trumpeted $600bn in commitments from Saudi Arabia to American…

Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters

Published: May 13, 2025 16:33

Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in MarchMicrosoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce.The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about…

ā€˜It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

Published: May 12, 2025 08:00

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigningWhen game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered…

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them | Ed Newton-Rex

Published: May 12, 2025 07:00

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care?I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The…

Elizabeth Holmes’s partner reportedly raises millions for blood-testing startup

Published: May 11, 2025 15:13

Billy Evans, father of Holmes’s children, says company can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and salivaElizabeth Holmes’s romantic partner – the father of her children – reportedly has raised millions of dollars to start up a new blood-testing…

BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok

Published: May 11, 2025 11:00

US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands – and push some victims to suicideA TikTok video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of…

Australia has been hesitant – but could robots soon be delivering your pizza?

Published: May 10, 2025 20:00

While there have been concerns over the safety and legal status of the technology, working models from local startups are showing its benefitsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRobots zipping down footpaths may sound futuristic, but…

Can a methadone-dispensing robot free up nurses and improve patient care?

Published: May 10, 2025 12:00

A nurse and an engineer founded Opio Connect to make machines that dispense drugs and reduce drudge workLanea George pulls open a steel security door and enters a windowless room where a video camera stares at what looks like a commercial-grade…

AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

Published: May 10, 2025 11:00

AI safety campaigner calls for existential threat assessment akin to Oppenheimer’s calculations before first nuclear testArtificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first…

Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging Starmer to rethink AI copyright plans

Published: May 9, 2025 23:01

Hundreds of leading figures from UK creative industries urge prime minister not to ā€˜give our work away’Hundreds of leading figures and organisations in the UK’s creative industries, including Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Ian McKellen and the Royal…

Does video game monetisation harm children – and what is Australia doing about it?

Published: May 9, 2025 15:00

Games like Roblox are played by millions of children globally – but some researchers warn dark design patterns embedded in them are difficult to avoidGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOver the last decade, Dean has amassed a…

ā€˜Tone deaf’: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI

Published: May 9, 2025 07:11

CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the businessThe cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it…

Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict

Published: May 8, 2025 14:55

Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes ā€˜against local law’Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government’s request, the account’s founder said on Wednesday, denouncing the…

The 8 best video doorbells tried and tested – and Ring isn’t top

Published: May 8, 2025 14:00

Whether you want to bolster your home’s security or simply make sure you know when someone is at the door, the latest generation of smart doorbells will help put your mind at ease• The best robot vacuums to keep your home clean and dust freeDoorbells have…

Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ā€˜manipulation and vandalism’

Published: May 8, 2025 11:04

Wikimedia Foundation seeks judicial review of some requirements of Online Safety Act it claims may endanger safety of volunteer editorsThe charity that hosts Wikipedia is challenging the UK’s online safety legislation in the high court, saying some of its…

GTA6 gets it on: can the notoriously cynical action series finally find time for romance?

Published: May 8, 2025 08:00

The newest trailer indicates Grand Theft Auto VI may have a soft centre, with its focus on outlaw lovers Lucia and JasonSomething new is coming to the Grand Theft Auto universe next year. I don’t mean super-high-definition visuals, or previously unexplored…

ā€˜Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?

Published: May 8, 2025 04:00

President Trump’s tariffs have plunged the world economy into chaos. But history counsels against despair – and the left should seize on capitalism’s crisis of legitimacySince Donald Trump launched his chaotic trade war earlier this year, it has become a…

Tech giants beat quarterly expectations as Trump’s tariffs hit the sector

Published: May 7, 2025 17:21

What’s new in AI – from effects on job market to Meta’s new app and ChatGPT changes – and a look at Musk’s first termHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, and this week in tech news: Trump’s tariffs hit tech companies that move…

The best phone straps: 15 stylish and practical picks to keep your device close and your hands free

Published: May 7, 2025 14:00

Our fashion expert rounds up her pick of the best phone straps, from beaded wristlets and cross-body straps to lanyards with recycled cases• Jess Cartner-Morley’s May style essentials: life-changing jeans and the ultimate holiday shoesYou’re probably…

Amazon makes ā€˜fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch

Published: May 7, 2025 07:05

Vulcan device ā€˜capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job lossesAmazon said it has made a ā€œfundamental leap forward in roboticsā€ after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about…

ā€˜The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?

Published: May 7, 2025 04:00

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ā€˜addiction’?At 3.12pm on a sunny spring…

Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block-dropping puzzler

Published: May 6, 2025 12:00

Arcade Crew/Sleepy Mill Studio; PCBuild a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by…