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  • The newly Americanized TikTok faced a rocky first week.

    Analysis
    Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

    App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor
  • Smartphone screen with apps including WhatsApp and thumb hovering over

    WhatsApp
    US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

  • Robert Topinka

    How the left can win back the internet – and rise again

    Robert Topinka
  • Composite of six people with their electronic devicesL-R: Shere Mohamed, Pippa White, Barnaby Lashbrooke, Paula Gadsden, Dayeon Lim, Katrina Mirpuri

    Social media
    Can you guess our screen time? A priest, pensioner, tech CEO and teenager reveal all

  • OpenAI and SearchGPT

    AI
    AI-generated news should carry ‘nutrition’ labels, thinktank says

  • Shoppers walking by the Urban Outfitters store on Princes Street in Edinburgh

    Gig economy
    Urban Outfitters, Dreams and Royal Parks cafes criticised for use of gig economy app

  • Mark Zuckerberg on stage holding a microphone.

    Explainer
    What to know about the jury trials of Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube

Spotlight

  • Thee TikTok app on a phone.

    ‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

  • Screen split into boxes, each with the name of a drink and a picture of a server signing that drink's name.

    ‘Coffee is just the excuse’: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order

  • Woman using handheld fan while experiencing hot flush

    ‘Menopause gold rush’? Boom in hi-tech products as stigma starts to recede

  • Brazil's President Lula attends the inauguration of a BYD plant in Camacariepa12443403 People clean vehicles during the inauguration of the Chinese company Build Your Dreams (BYD)'s factory, which will serve as the base for the company’s future expansion into the Latin American electric vehicle market in Camacari, Brazil, 09 October 2025. EPA/AMERICO ROBERTO

    Electric ​cars ​go ​mainstream as ​adoption ​surges ​across ​rich and ​developing ​nations

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Opinion & analysis

  • a logo on a building

    Big tech results show investor demand for payoffs from heavy AI spending

  • Heather Stewart

    AI must augment rather than replace us or human workers are doomed

    Heather Stewart
  • close-up of person wearing suit and tie

    Why Trump is worried datacenters might cost his party an election

  • Sprawling complex of datacentres

    ‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward

Games

  • Nintendo Switch Sports.

    There’s a reason that Wii Bowling remains my mum’s favourite game of all time

    Dominik Diamond
    At a family gathering over Christmas, I took on my 76-year-old mother once again at virtual bowling. Could I finally best her?
  • Aava scales Mount Kami in Cairn.

    Cairn review – obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights

  • Highguard game

    A poor surprise reveal for Highguard leaves it fighting an uphill battle for good reviews

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  • International appeal …PokéPark Kanto, which opens in Tokyo on 5 February.

    Pikachu and pals go wild: Pokémon theme park opens in Tokyo

  • The Traitors 2026 finalist Jade.

    ‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games

Inside Silicon Valley

  • Armida van Rij

    Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies

    Armida van Rij
  • Rafael Behr

    When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control

    Rafael Behr
  • Businessman standing in front of blank television screensGettyImages-71416200

    The fight to see clearly through big tech’s echo chambers

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  • Businessman standing in front of blank television screens

    How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’

Reviews

  • Chris Pratt in Mercy.

    Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller

  • Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

    Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld

  • A Lumie Bodyclock Glow 150 on a nightstand next to a bed

    The best wake-up under the sun: Lumie Bodyclock Glow 150 sunrise alarm clock review

  • Lili Reinhart in Clickbait.

    Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet

In depth

  • a masked man in tactical gear scans the face of a driver with a phone

    How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota

  • a person works at a datacenter

    At Davos, tech CEOs laid out their vision for AI’s world domination

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  • an aerial view of a building

    Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America’s AI boom

  • Black and white image of Sam Altman profile.

    Sam Altman’s make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future?

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