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‘My kids buy me food’: civil service pensioners offered emergency loans as nearly 90,000 face delays

Government to lend up to £10,000 to worst-affected new retirees as minister admits there is…

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Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says

Lord Stockwood says people in government ‘definitely’ talking about idea as technology disrupts industries •…

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As most TV viewers tune in via broadband, will 2034 signal the death of Freeview?

The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off…

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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us…

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Households in England and Wales must splash out more as water bills rise again

Average bills to go up by 5.4% in April, with Ofwat approving record spending plans…

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Fury as enforcement of decent homes standard for private renters in England put back to 2035

Campaigners say government ‘denying renters the most basic standards in our homes’ UK politics live…

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Google DeepMind launches AI tool to help identify genetic drivers of disease

AlphaGenome can analyse up to 1m letters of DNA code at once and could pave…

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‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’

Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for…

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Amazon tells workers it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in second big wave of layoffs

Workers informed after message erroneously said affected employees in US, Canada and Costa Rica had…

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UK veterinary sector reforms planned to tackle high costs of pet care

Proposals would require clearer pricing and transparency as CMA finds fees have risen at nearly…

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