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Saving private property: Tom Hanks reunites missing socks with their owners

The Hollywood superstar has made it his business to alert people to their missing stuff – making the owners famous in the process

Computers might beat us at board games, but that doesn’t mean they’ll take over the world

So computers can now beat humans at Go – but why would they swap their game pieces for bombs?

Omer Fast: Present Continuous review – teasing takes on sex, death and trauma

This mesmerising collection of film and video work by the Israeli artist is full of dangling clues and subliminal messages, playing fast and loose with our credulity

Virtual reality pioneer Lynette Wallworth tells Indigenous story in explosive detail

Australian virtual reality artist for Sundance’s New Frontiers Institute set out to break all the rules for her milestone production, Collisions

Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams ‘back’ Napster founder’s Screening Room

Sean Parker’s plan to make Hollywood blockbusters available at home on the day of their cinema release ‘will expand audiences’, says Jackson

Richard Billingham: ‘I just hated growing up in that tower block’

The photographer was a pioneer of ‘squalid realism’ with his images of his parents’ dreary existence in the Black Country. Now he’s turning their life into a feature film

Napster founder plans to screen movies at home on day they hit cinemas

Revolutionary Screening Room venture by Sean Parker could end ‘theatrical window’ by offering new films at $50 a pop – despite industry doubts

Beauty site apologises for mistaking Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah Winfrey at Oscars

Total Beauty has promised to donate $10,000 to charity after admitting there were ‘no excuses’ for its Twitter error

First episode of David Bowie’s Blackstar miniseries posted on Instagram

The first of a 16-part series called Unbound, with music from Blackstar and starring Tavi Gevinson and Patricia Clarkson, has been posted to Instagram

#OscarsSoWhite: a 10-point plan for change by the hashtag’s creator

How should the Academy Awards address its diversity problem? The woman behind the hashtag, April Reign, shares her suggestions

Oregon man pleads guilty to stealing nude and explicit photos of celebrities

An Oregon man who accessed hundreds of email accounts and stole the photos from 13 people has pleaded guilty to a felony hacking charge in Los Angeles

Amazon buys new Woody Allen film while Netflix hides Crouching Tiger sequel from critics

These are strange times for streaming, as rival services take opposing approaches to exclusive film rights

Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Mobile Strike game advert – Ad break

See the Terminator star battle all comers in a Super Bowl 2016 commercial, plus Samsung describes the tough path to Winter Olympics glory

Twitter can be cruel, but Stephen Fry didn’t have to leave

The anonymity of the app allows people to dispense instant, often thoughtless, judgment. But there is a right to reply, and you can always switch off

Cynthia Nixon: Emily Dickinson would have loved Twitter

A Quiet Passion actor suggests that celebrated 19th-century American poet was far from cut off, and would have been ‘emailing and tweeting all day long’

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