technology
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Trial only open to two customers in UK who have huge gardens, live close to an Amazon depot and want items that weigh less than 2.6kg
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Taxi-app company attempts to overturn judgment that drivers are entitled to minimum wage, sick pay and paid holiday
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Standalone unit Waymo will have more power to set its own priorities, but move comes after key employees walked away
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Members of Silicon Valley’s elite including Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella and Sheryl Sandberg to meet president-elect in New York
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Latest MacOS 10.12.2 update removes the long-used ‘time remaining’ feature so users have no indication of poor battery life
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Broadband network will cost budget $580m in 2016-17 and increase from there, but the final cost won’t be known until NBN Co is sold
news
privacy
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In the run-up to the US election, aide to John Podesta spotted phishing email but flagged it as ‘legitimate’ instead of ‘illegitimate’
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US president Barack Obama says Russia’s involvement in the email hacks that blighted the US elections was no secret
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opinion & analysis
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It is crucial for a resilient democracy that we better understand how Google and Facebook are changing the way we think, interact and behave
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Google’s decision to make its own smartphone might have looked like a blow to the likes of Samsung but the reality is much more interesting
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As social network reportedly develops tools to restrict users so the Communist party will let it in, some experts say it is ‘light years’ behind rivals already in place
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The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century
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Six months after its release, the game is getting its first major tranche of new pokémon
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The hacker crime-caper sequel comes good, while Dishonored’s follow-up falls short of the original
inside Silicon Valley
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Fearmongering Donald Trump and optimistic Silicon Valley seem to epitomize opposing ideologies. But the two have far more in common than you think
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Forget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
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The tech company, long criticized displacing low-income residents in Silicon Valley, will partner with advocacy groups to amid massive campus expansion
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Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions has sought to curtail H-1B visa program that allows thousands of workers and students into US annually
reviews
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It’s the best, lightest, most beautiful laptop around. Until it runs out of battery. Or you forget a dongle. Or you realise you’re bankrupt
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The new, improved Android device might not be quite the bargain the OnePlus 3 was, but it’s still right up there with the best
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devices
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WearablesWearablesThe doctor on your Xbox? The NHS needs more digital ambitionPatients and staff use a wide range of new technologies, from smart watches to virtual gaming. Let’s see how the NHS can use it
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Internet of thingsInternet of thingsWill the internet of things sacrifice or save the environment?Some devices will power themselves but the more complex will contribute to the world’s huge data storage energy bill
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SmartphonesSmartphonesUber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé'Cab startup’s former forensic investigator Samuel Ward Spangenberg claims he was fired from the company after blowing whistle on lack of security
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TabletsTabletsThe top 30 gadgets of 2016From the retro gaming delights of Super Mario Bros to virtual reality, home-bots and hybrid cars, here is this year’s must-have technology
in depth
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This year has revealed how difficult it is for the social network to ‘make the world more open and connected’ when the decisions it makes can be so divisive
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