The Best of Guardian Tech
20+ most popular Guardian Tech articles, as voted by our community.
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Guardian Tech on Amazon
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged Facebook and Google and Amazon saw a rise in employee organizing
Guardian Tech on Artificial Intelligence
Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’
It is not yet clear how the power and possibilities of AI will play out. Here are the best-case scenarios for how it might help us develop new drugs, give up dull jobs and live long, healthy lives
‘ChatGPT said I did not exist’: how artists and writers are fighting back against AI
From lawsuits to IT hacks, the creative industries are deploying a range of tactics to protect their jobs and original work from automation
Guardian Tech on Facebook
France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
Finance minister warns monetary sovereignty of governments could be at risk
Guardian Tech on Facial Recognition
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms
Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
The rise of facial recognition technology
With facial recognition technology getting more sophisticated each year, technology editor Alex Hern explores the issue of privacy. Also today: Jamie Grierson on Sunday’s terrorism attack in south…
Guardian Tech on LGBTQIA
This algorithm can tell whether you're gay or straight, from a photograph
An artificial intelligence guessed the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions
TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content
Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
Guardian Tech on Privacy
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
Reading through all this intimate information I realised the dating app knows me better than I do. But what happens if this data gets hacked – or worse, sold?
Guardian Tech on Technology
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race…
«“the new, digitally supercharged dynamics of the attention economy have finally crossed a threshold and become manifest in the political realm”»
Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
In an exclusive global series, the Guardian lays bare the revolution and the wreckage that is engulfing the welfare state worldwide
Guardian Tech on Twitter
Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey
Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable state’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News
Ten tech predictions for 2022: what’s next for Twitter, Uber and NFTs
The year ahead for the social media giants, podcasts and games – and will there be yet another hyped return for virtual reality?
«After trimming them all the way down to simply two USB-C ports and a headphone jack, the new Pros have an HDMI port and even an SD card reader. We really are back to the future.»
Guardian Tech on Voice Computing
'Alexa, are you invading my privacy?'
There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare
Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings
Workers hear drug deals, medical details and people having sex, says whistleblower
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The meaning of life in a world without work
As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids
The long read: When children first started flocking to YouTube, some seriously strange stuff started to appear – and after much outcry, the company found itself scrambling to fix the problem
‘They couldn’t even scream any more. They were just sobbing’: the amateur investors ruined by the crypto…
Fuelled by hype and hysteria, the market in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies went from an obscure niche to a $3tn industry. Then the house of cards collapsed
Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?
Does the advent of machine learning mean the classic methodology of hypothesise, predict and test has had its day?
Why time management is ruining our lives
The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
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Guardian Tech on Social Media
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’
Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web
Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity