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AP Contributed

The hill I will die on: Voice notes have made my generation a bunch of self-absorbed bores | Annabel Martin

  • Annabel Martin
  • Updated 14 hrs ago

We used to have the back and forth of actual conversation. Now we have phones filled with our friends’ rambling soliloquies

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‘RAMageddon’: is the era of cheap phones and laptops over?

  • Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor
  • Updated May 6, 2026

Bargains are disappearing and the cost of gadgets such as MacBooks and PS5s is rising as AI competes for memory chips

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Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was ‘available now’

  • Agence France-Presse
  • Updated May 5, 2026

Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit

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‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools

  • Richard Adams Education editor
  • May 5, 2026

Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England’s schools

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