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Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version's enhanced capabilities come at a steep costIn mid-2023, if a user asked OpenAI's ChatGPT for a recipe for artichoke pasta or instructions on how to make a ritual offering to the ancient Canaanite deity Moloch, its response might have taken - very roughly - 2 watt-hours, or about as much electricity as an incandescent bulb consumes in 2 minutes.OpenAI released a model on Thursday that will underpin the popular chatbot - GPT-5. Ask that version of the AI for an artichoke recipe, and the same amount of pasta-related text could take several times - even 20 times - that amount of energy, experts say. Continue reading...

Concerns that tech company's Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigationMicrosoft is investigating how Israel's military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company's staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects.Senior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after a Guardian investigation revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls. Continue reading...

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers - repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squadHanin Al-Batsh estimates she has signed up for more than 80 Bluesky accounts in the last six months.Like hundreds of other Palestinians struggling to buy or even find food in Gaza, Al-Batsh uses Bluesky to promote her crowdfunding campaigns, hoping to raise enough money for flour and milk for her children in a given week. Continue reading...

Country is one of only a handful - alongside China and North Korea - where service fails to function as it shouldFor tourists visiting South Korea, one of the world's most technologically advanced nations, navigating the country's urban heartlands can prove surprisingly frustrating for one simple reason: Google Maps just doesn't work effectively.That could change soon, as South Korean authorities discuss whether to finally grant Google's request to export the country's detailed mapping data to overseas servers. But a decision on the matter was postponed for a second time this year on Friday to allow for further review of security concerns. Continue reading...

The two-hour debate propelled Jubilee Media into the mainstream and has been viewed 10m times, but some worry about the embrace of rage-fuelled contentMehdi Hasan knew he had gone viral. The broadcaster and author saw the views ticking up on YouTube; his phone was pinging incessantly. But the realisation that things had become, well, really quite surreal came when an older gentleman approached him at an event in Washington and, in Urdu, said: I watched you with the 20 crazies."The man was referring to the British-American commentator's appearance on Surrounded, a gladiatorial one-v-many debate web series, hosted on YouTube by Jubilee Media. During the debate - billed as 1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives" - Hasan was asked about his ethnic background", by a man who the Guardian unmasked as the organiser of two violent far-right protests. Another debater laughed maniacally to applause while agreeing he was a fascist. He was later sacked and condemned - and then raised $30,000 (22,300) from supporters on a Christian crowdfunding site. The video has now been viewed more than 10m times. Continue reading...

A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads - here's a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier leagueSometimes it's the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm ... Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.Billed as the world's first online survival horror football game," Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego handball" Maradona and Luis bitey" Suarez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide. Continue reading...

Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaosAri Aster's new movie, Eddington, pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on how to get their small town through the crisis of Covid. It's also a film about the contemporary political crisis in the US and the influence of technology on our lives.Adam Curtis's latest documentary series, Shifty, covers similar themes but through the lens of British life in the Thatcher years of the late 1970s to early 1990s. This era, he argues, put in place a substantial shift in power away from the individual and the nation state, changes that are still playing out today. Continue reading...

Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs' aides have nowt to worry aboutAs anyone with even a trace of a regional dialect who has had to pay a parking fine can attest, voice recognition services struggle with accents. Now, people in Mark Sewards' constituency in Leeds are likely to find the same problem with his AI variant.A chatbot billed as the first AI version of an MP responds in Sewards' voice with advice, support or by offering to pass on a message to his team - but only if it understands you. Continue reading...

Though GPT-5 model has better coding and writing abilities it is not yet able to continuously learn'OpenAI has claimed to have taken a significant step" towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of its latest upgrade to ChatGPT, but has admitted there are still many things" missing in its quest to create a system able to do humans' jobs.The startup said its GPT-5 model, the underlying technology that will power its breakthrough AI chatbot, represents a big upgrade on its predecessors in areas such as coding and creative writing - and is also a lot less sycophantic. Continue reading...

Impossible to monitor, a gateway to dangerous content, or a great educational tool? As the social media ban looms, parents tell us how YouTube affects their world

With distinct, discrete areas that you can visit at any time, this is not a traditional open world adventure, and it resists gamification with the mantra there's no goal but to stroll'Here is poetry in the form of a game description. Bernband is a sci-fi exploration game for people who like to wander...". Players will be able to simply walk around a colourful and unusual world, wandering in the glow cast by streetlights and ducking beneath zigzagging overhead flags. They'll tour hallways where strange green life grows politely in planters, and they'll even get the chance to snooze on rattling otherworldly subway trains while hand grips - tentacle grips? - jiggle as they hang overhead. There's no goal but to stroll," the game's Steam page promises. Where will your feet take you?"There's something intoxicating about a game that just lets you wander. But it doesn't mean the game itself is easy to make, of course. Wandering [as] the main goal is quite difficult for many reasons," says Tom van den Boogaart, the developer of Bernband, who is using the project to reimagine a much smaller version he made in 2014. To let players explore on their own, I think you first of all need to give them some context, such as where they are and what kind of world they are exploring." Continue reading...

Super bright OLED screen, top tracking accuracy, voice control and calls on your wrist are held back by high priceGarmin's latest mid-range running and multisport watch has smartened up with a very bright OLED screen, voice assistant and upgraded sensors.The Forerunner 570 continues the revamp of the company's running watches, which have all gained more accurate GPS chips and improved heart rate monitors. The new model replaces the popular 265 and sits under the 970. It offers a similar look and feel to the top watch but with a few key features removed for a lower price. Continue reading...

Tech giant's plan to up domestic investment over next four years comes as it seeks to avoid Trump's threatened tariffsDonald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years.Apple's plan to up its domestic investment comes as it seeks to avoid Trump's threatened tariffs, which would increase the tech giant's costs as it relies on a complex international supply chain to produce its iPhones. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, warned during an earnings call in May that the tariffs could cost the company up to $900m that fiscal quarter alone. Continue reading...

If the transaction goes ahead the value of the ChatGPT developer would rise by about two-thirds to $500bn

My love for video games has never wavered, I have no intention of growing up and moving onIt is my birthday this week. And while that may not sound like a worthy subject for Pushing Buttons, bear with me.I am now 54 - and so officially in my mid-50s - and I still write about video games for a living. I play video games every day; I work in a home office where I'm surrounded by video games. When I'm not playing them, I'm probably thinking about them. But at times like this, I think: maybe should I stop someday? Is there an upper limit on how long someone can do games journalism? Certainly I only know of a handful of people my age who are still writing about games on a full-time basis. Some of my friends outside the industry still play games, but usually only one or two a year - EA Sports FC, maybe, the latest blockbusting narrative adventure, Nintendo with the kids. If you're not careful, life has a way of shepherding you away from your interests. Continue reading...

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians' phone calls on Microsoft's servers in EuropeOne afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel's military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief's agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company's cloud.Meeting at Microsoft's headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella's support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Continue reading...

Productivity Commission report raises possible exemption for text and data mining' and expanding fair dealing rules, prompting fierce pushback

On an icy world, a glitteringly hard take on sci-fi emerges which draws on real science as well as Hollywood's cosmic fantasiesWhat defines a game by Don't Nod, the French studio behind acclaimed narrative dramas Life Is Strange, Tell Me Why and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage? Dimitri Weideli, an executive producer at the company, has a hard time replying to this question at first, and then settles on an answer that seems rather broad. We want to make games that matter and that give players a great story that allows them to go through different kinds of emotions," he says. We try to diversify the kind of games we create, but at the same time, keep the same spirit."There's certainly something to this idea of diversification. Since its founding in 2008, the French outfit has made action-adventure games about memory, narrative games involving magical college students, and a role-playing game about a Georgian vampire. Recently, it released Jusant, an ecological sci-fi fable that was also a refreshingly realistic take on rock climbing. Continue reading...

Politics is struggling to cope with the pace of technological change - and that is affecting every single one of usReturning from holiday, asked where I have been, I want to say offline". The more precise answer is France, where the internet is available. But I tried not to use it compulsively because there isn't much point in getting away from it all if you carry it all with you on a phone and check it every few minutes.At some point in the past decade or so, the condition of vacation came to be defined more by detachment from the digital realm than departure from home. The break begins not in a departure lounge but with the act of logging off, setting the out-of-office email auto-reply, archiving work-related WhatsApp chats, deleting social media apps. Continue reading...

Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens - only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation to Shrek in spaceWhy write an opera about Mars? Because Mars isn't just a planet. It's a philosophy, an ideology. The way humans think about it changes over time, reflecting the unstable mix of assumptions, hopes, dreams and anxieties that define each historical moment.In 1965, Nasa's Mariner 4 probe flew past Mars and beamed the first closeup images of the red planet (or of any other planet) back to Earth. Prior to that flight, humans knew the planet only through telescopes, and it was thought that its surface would feature vegetation and that life may have evolved there. Mariner 4 revealed the truth: it was a rocky, cratered place seemingly devoid of life. President Lyndon B Johnson declared that it may just be that life as we know it, with its humanity, is more unique than many have thought, and we must remember this". The New York Times went further: Mars, it now appears, is a desolate world." Continue reading...

Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics sayWhen Ming* found a hidden camera in her bedroom, she prayed for a reasonable explanation, wondering whether her boyfriend had placed it there to record memories of their happy life" together. But hope quickly turned to horror. Ming's boyfriend had been secretly taking sexually exploitative photos of not just Ming and her female friends, but also of other women in other locations, then using AI technology to generate pornographic images of them.After Ming confronted him, he begged for mercy" but became angry when she refused to forgive him, Ming reportedly told Chinese news outlet Jimu News. Continue reading...

Party wants video platform to face same scrutiny as broadcasters due to deepfake and investment scamsThe Liberal Democrats are calling for urgent regulation of YouTube advertising after scams including deepfakes, impersonated public figures and fraudulent investment claims were found to be spreading on the platform with little oversight.The party said YouTube's adverts remain largely unchecked by independent regulators, despite new data from Ofcom showing the platform has overtaken ITV in weekly UK viewership and continues to dominate children's media consumption. Continue reading...

Developer of ChatGPT says new tools will be for wide benefit', echoing announcement by Mark ZuckerbergOpenAI is taking on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Chinese rival DeepSeek by launching its own freely available artificial intelligence models.The ChatGPT developer has announced two open weight" large language models, which are free to download and can be customised by developers. Continue reading...

From an AI spending wave to Palantir's deepening ties with the US government, tech's power is expanding - but for many women, safety online is further out of reachHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, tech companies are spending amounts of money that stretch the limits of the imagination. Donald Trump's administration is spending more money with data analytics and surveillance firm Palantir. And women on both sides of the Pacific face the extreme difficulty of keeping intimate moments private online.Department: DefenseDepartment: Homeland SecurityDepartment: Health and Human ServicesDepartment: TreasuryDepartment: JusticeDepartment: EnergyDepartment: StateDepartment: Transportation Continue reading...

Carmaker and CEO accused of securities fraud and hiding significant risk posed by company's self-driving vehiclesTesla shareholders sued Elon Musk and the electric vehicle maker for allegedly concealing the significant risk posed by company's self-driving vehicles.The proposed class-action suit, which accuses Musk and Tesla of securities fraud, was filed on Monday night. Tesla conducted its first public test of its self-driving taxis in late June near the company's headquarters in Austin, Texas. That test showed the vehicles speeding, braking suddenly, driving over a curb, entering the wrong lane and dropping off passengers in the middle of multilane roads. The National Highway Transit Safety Administration (NHTSA), the main transportation regulator in the US, is investigating the Robotaxi's pilot test. Continue reading...

Instead of giving definitive answers to personal challenges the chatbot will help people reflect on a problemChatGPT will not tell people to break up with their partner and will encourage users to take breaks from long chatbot sessions, under new changes to the artificial intelligence tool.OpenAI, ChatGPT's developer, said the chatbot would stop giving definitive answers to personal challenges and would instead help people to mull over problems such as potential breakups. Continue reading...

Sedentary lifestyles are bad for us, but which under-desk treadmills and walking pads are worth the cost? Our expert stepped up to find out The best treadmills for your homeVarious guidelines suggest we all try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day to improve our health and wellbeing. Public Health England encourages a slightly more manageable target of just 10 minutes of brisk walking daily to introduce more moderate-intensity physical activity and reduce your risk of early death by up to 15%.However, even squeezing in brisk walks" can be a chore, with busy schedules and increasingly desk-bound jobs forcing more of us to remain sedentary for long periods. That is where walking pads come in, being lighter, smaller and often easier to store than bulky and tricky-to-manoeuvre running treadmills.Best walking pad overall:

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Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville follows a small legal outfit as it takes Silicon Valley's most powerful companies to task for endangering young usersTweens are herd animals" and have an addicts' narrative", according to internal documents revealed by a Facebook whistleblower to congress, making clear the levels of cynicism and obfuscation the company operates with in its quest to hook young people to its platform. Bad though that is, it's not the worst example in this lucidly laid out and often harrowing indictment of social media's ruthlessness; that would be the proliferation of drug dealers on Snapchat, which the company seems to have to some extent turned a blind eye to in the scramble to expand its user base.Based on the investigative work of Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville, this film covers the attempts of minnow legal outfit Social Media Victims Law Center to net the sharks of Silicon Valley. It represents a host of families who have suffered heartbreaking losses due to unpoliced extreme online content: children and teenagers who fatally copied auto-asphyxiation or pro-suicide videos, ones who killed themselves after falling victim to sextortionists, or who overdosed after buying off-prescription meds from predatory dealers. The battle here is to overcome section 230, a get-out clause in the 1996 Telecommunication Act that gives social media companies immunity for third-party-generated content. Of course, Mark Zuckerberg was still slurping Slush Puppies back then. Continue reading...

Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in market

Indie developer's take on the ethical conundrum about choosing who to save from an oncoming train may be gimmicky, but with its charm and bite-size levels, it's ideal for the social media eraIn 1967, British philosopher Philippa Foot unwittingly created one of the internet's most regurgitated memes. A runaway train is hurtling towards five people tied to the tracks. You can pull a lever to divert the train to a different track to which only one person is tied. Do you intervene to kill the one and spare the five?What if one of the tracks twisted into a really cool loop-the-loop? Or the trolley was replaced by a bloodthirsty Thomas the Tank Engine? Or the whole dilemma was clumsily altered to comment on the political controversy of the day? Originally formulated as a reflection on moral decision-making, the trolley problem found a second life in the 2010s as a well of inspiration for variously silly, irreverent and self-referential trolley-based memes. Now, it may be entering its third era as surreal interactive comedy game The Trolley Solution. Continue reading...

Yes, the huge firms pushing unsuitable content must be regulated. But until they are, adults can model the positive use of tech

The head of Google's DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of incredible productivity' and radical abundance'. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had moved more slowly?If you have a mental image of a Nobel prizewinner, Demis Hassabis probably doesn't fit it. Relatively young (he's 49), mixed race (his father is Greek-Cypriot, his mother Chinese-Singaporean), state-educated, he didn't exactly look out of place receiving his medal from the king of Sweden in December, amid a sea of grey-haired men, but it was very surreal", he admits. I'm really bad at enjoying the moment. I've won prizes in the past, and I'm always thinking , What's the next thing?' But this one was really special. It's something you dream about as a kid."Well, maybe not you, but certainly him. Hassabis was marked out as exceptional from a young age - he was a chess prodigy when he was four. Today, arguably, he's one of the most important people in the world. As head of Google DeepMind, the tech giant's artificial intelligence arm, he's driving, if not necessarily steering, what promises to be the most significant technological revolution of our lifetimes. Continue reading...

Farage accuses government of being so below the belt' as right wing doubles down on censorship claimsThe UK's Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred or encourage suicide, self-harm or eating disorders.But within days of coming into force, the new approach to keeping children safe online had become a rallying point for the right in both Britain and the US. Continue reading...

Investigative journalist Sonke Iwersen describes his years-long investigation into Tesla, aided by a whistleblower, exposing serious safety concerns over the company's carsIn November 2022, a whistleblower contacted investigative journalist Sonke Iwersen.He could not give his name, he said, but he had access to huge amounts of data about Tesla, his former employer: private phone numbers, social security information, bank statements, documents stamped top secret', and much, much more. Continue reading...

When professional services are overstretched, always-on' tools like ChatGPT can look attractive. But users must be wary of the many risks involved

More Britons in this age group are switching to the video platform, with its shorter, niche and more personal contentUK viewers over the age of 55 watched almost twice as much YouTube last year as they did in 2023, with 42% of them watching on a TV, according to a survey by the communications regulator Ofcom.Here, six people over 50 describe why they prefer YouTube and how it compares with the broadcast TV they grew up with. Continue reading...

We must avoid inequalities between the global north and global south being perpetuated in the digital ageI come from Trinidad and Tobago. As a country that was once colonized by the British, I am wary of the ways that inequalities between the global north and global south risk being perpetuated in the digital age.When we consider the lack of inclusion of the global south in discussions about artificial intelligence (AI), I think about how this translates to an eventual lack of economic leverage and geopolitical engagement in this technology that has captivated academics within the industrialised country I reside, the United States.Krystal Maughan is a PhD student at the University of Vermont studying differential privacy and machine learning Continue reading...

Users may be led down conspiracy theory rabbit holes or into emotional harm by chatbots designed to maximise engagement and affirmation, some say

Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so farThe US's largest companies have spent 2025 locked in a competition to spend more money than one another, lavishing $155bn on the development of artificial intelligence, more than the US government has spent on education, training, employment and social services in the 2025 fiscal year so far.Based on the most recent financial disclosures of Silicon Valley's biggest players, the race is about to accelerate to hundreds of billions in a single year. Continue reading...

New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in FloridaSix years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: What the hell, that can't be real." The second: There's got to be a film about this - I want to watch it so badly."There wasn't a film about competitive spreadsheeting, so Kraskov decided to make it herself. The subject appealed to the director, whose work captures different inner worlds that are a bit unusual on the outside", including a short film titled Party in the Back, about a mullet festival. Continue reading...

Court revives part of lawsuit accusing X of failing to promptly report uploaded images to relevant authoritiesA federal appeals court on Friday revived part of a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's X of becoming a haven for child exploitation, though the court said the platform deserves broad immunity from claims over objectionable content.While rejecting some claims, the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco said X, formerly Twitter, must face a claim it was negligent by failing to promptly report a video containing explicit images of two underage boys to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Continue reading...

Elon Musk's social media platform says lawmakers made a conscientious decision' to increase censorshipElon Musk's X platform has said the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) is at risk of seriously infringing" free speech as a row deepens over measures for protecting children from harmful content.The social media company said the act's laudable" intentions were being overshadowed by its aggressive implementation by the communications watchdog, Ofcom. Continue reading...

There's no shame any more, and no better place to lose yourself and the world with a few quiet rounds of Pocket Card Jockey or Marvel Snap than in the quiet of the privyThere are two types of people in the world. Those who play games on the toilet, and those who pretend they don't. I am a proud member of the former category. I realise this may not be the most Guardian" of Guardian article openings, but we all use the toilet and we all play games; I am merely providing a Venn diagram.We used to read books in there. I even had a small bookcase in mine, and am old enough to remember when a workplace was not considered civilised unless there was a copy of that day's newspaper in every cubicle so that hard working staff could catch up with global goings on during their five minutes of down-the-pan time. Continue reading...

A trip to the seaside isn't complete without a jangling cup of 2p coins or an overconfident uncle nursing a sore hand. Here's a rundown of the top nostalgia-inducing gamesThe seaside day trip remains an almost essential component of the school summer holidays, and although the big beachfront arcades have changed a lot over the last decade, they are still a magnet for small kids with handfuls of change, as well as adults hoping to spy an old Space Invaders cabinet in the back. As a child of the 1980s, coin-op video games were an obsession, but what really fascinated me were the older machines, the electro-mechanical oddities that hung on into the digital age. Here are 10 of the best - please add your own in the comments. Continue reading...

The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watchAbout ten years ago, Aamir Khan became troubled. Despite being one of Bollywood's most bankable superstars for more than three decades, he realised that only tiny numbers of Indians were watching him on the big screen.Indian cinema is widely adored and has an outsized influence on society but just 2-3% of its 1.4 billion people go to the cinema. Continue reading...

Tech giant sees double-digit revenue rise, with huge gains in iPhone sales, despite stock-price drop and looming tariffsApple has been under pressure this year. It's playing catch-up to its fellow tech giants on artificial intelligence, it's seen its stock fall by double digits since the year began, it closed a store in China for the first time ever this week, and looming US tariffs on Beijing threaten its supply chain. On Thursday, the company released its third-quarter earnings of the fiscal year as investors scrutinize how the iPhone maker might turn things around.Despite the gloomy outlook, the company is still worth more than $3tn, and it beat Wall Street's expectations for profit and revenue this quarter. Apple reported a huge 10% year-over-year increase in revenue to $94.04bn, and $1.57 per share in earnings. That's substantially more than the $89.3bn in revenue and $1.43 per share that analysts predicted and is the company's biggest revenue growth since 2021. Continue reading...

Parents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their childrenFar-right extremists are using livestream gaming platforms to target and radicalise teenage players, a report has warned.The new research, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, reveals how a range of extremist groups and individuals use platforms that allow users to chat and livestream while playing video games to recruit and radicalise vulnerable users, mainly young males. Continue reading...

Serve up perfect rice every time with our expert-tested rice cookers, from space-saving mini appliances to microwave steaming bowls In the US? Check out our top-rated rice cookers thereHow often do you eat rice? Even if it's not a daily staple in your house, it's safe to say most Britons cook and eat rice at least a few times a week. And while it may seem a simple thing to cook, it can be surprisingly difficult to get it right.From long-grain to quick-cook, brown basmati to jasmine, different rice grains have different cook times, different rates of absorption and varying starch levels, which can all affect the result. Instead of fluffy, individual grains, you may find your rice burnt, stuck to the pan or with a claggy, chalky or overly glutinous texture. Dinner ruined.Best rice cooker overall:

No prescribed avenue for social media companies to check users' ages, but options include facial estimation technology and matching photos with ID