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This week as part of the Guardian Hacks SXSW project we have launched a guide to the bands playing at this year's SXSW festival in Austin.

Since a lot of the bands playing in Texas are small and little known in the UK, we knew we wouldn't have Guardian or Observer coverage of all of them. So, to provide something useful for our audience, we've taken a different approach - building automated pages by aggregating information on the artist from around the web, and mixing it with our own coverage where we have it. Continue reading...

Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon in July 1969 – but what if things had gone differently? Photograph: Neil Armstrong/Corbis

Today we're launching a new series of radio dramas called The Truth. They're made by the American producer Jonathan Mitchell, but they're hopefully unlike any other kind of audio fiction you've heard – not least because part of the point is that you're encouraged to believe they are real. They're dramas that play with the boundaries between reality and fiction, made-up and real-life, asking: "what if ...?" Continue reading...

Sign up for live football goal alerts from the Guardian iPhone app.

Guardian app goal alerts fixed in free update, now available to download

The jury is out on whether pagination of comments is a good or a bad thing

A taste of the new Guardian iPhone app, launched today

The new and improved Guardian iPhone app is now available. So what's new?

Documentary maker Masood Khan explains why he was inspired to make Muslim Resistance, a series of films examining British Muslims' efforts to combat extremism

Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, pictured last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

The Guardian is accused of ignoring its own role in publishing a WikiLeaks cable that may have put at risk the Zimbabwean prime minister. Critics have a case, says Guardian deputy editor, Ian Katz, but only up to a point

Sao Tome ... the land that tags forgot. Photograph: Armando Franca/AP

An end of year rundown of the countries we wrote about most – and least – in 2010

I've spent a lot of my career as a journalist trying to persuade people to open up to me about their misery and misfortunes. So when my own life began to resemble a storyline from a soap opera, it seemed natural to me to record what was happening. Continue reading...

Andy Duckworth at Cern, Geneva. Photograph: Claudia Marcelloni

To record the Christmas edition of the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast, multimedia producer Andy Duckworth spent five hours among the most intelligent researchers on the planet

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A huge surge of interest over the last couple of weeks means that 'WikiLeaks' just pips 'immigration' to be the most searched for news topic of the year on the Guardian & Observer website

John Domokos from the Guardian's video team outlines his approach to filming the recent demonstrations against plans to increase tuition fees

Philip Pullman. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

The Guardian's head of audio looks forward to a new series of podcasts, featuring leading authors reading short stories by other writers