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    ‘The tech bro fight club is real!’ The titans of AI get the Succession treatment in a wild new TV show

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    ‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun

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    Television
    double quotation markGlee’s pro-LGBTQ+ vision captured 2010s hope. Can a reboot handle Trump’s America?

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    TV review
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    Google’s new laptops are woefully underbaked

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    Judi Dench says sight loss means she can no longer perform but she is still ‘besotted by’ Shakespeare’s sonnets

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    Depression
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    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Don’t want to get your coat out? Try ‘onion dressing’

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    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Cream blush sticks for every skin type

  • Jeremy Strong wears a blue sweater and headphones around his neck as he acts as Mark Zuckerberg

    Menswear
    How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution

Travel

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    Travel
    Some enchanted evenings: 10 of the best after-dark adventures for families in the UK

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    Europe holidays
    I closed my eyes and stuck my finger on a map of western Europe: ‘This is where we’re going on holiday!’

Relationships

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    School reunions
    Curiosity, atonement or a score to settle? Why – and how – people get through their high school reunions

  • Leoni Horton holds up a vinyl record while standing by the record store section labelled 'Metal'

    A moment that changed me
    I was devastated by a breakup – and saved by a sweaty moshpit

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    This is how we do it
    ‘After marriage counselling, she no longer wants the lights off and the covers on’

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    The moment I knew
    For Valentine’s Day he gave me a heart covered in fake blood. I was appalled – and thrilled

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