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TikTok isn’t just facing financial penalties in the US over claimed child privacy breaches. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned TikTok that it might face a £27 million (about $29.2 million) fine after the watchdog determined that the social network may have broken data protection law by “failing to protect” kids’ privacy between … Read more

Following a request by South Korean prosecutors, Interpol has placed Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon on a “red notice” list, TechCrunch has reported. That will create a request for law enforcement agencies around the world to arrest Kwon following his blockchain company’s collapse that took $40 billion from investors with it.  After Korean authorities issued … Read more

If you have your eye on Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 5 but were waiting for a deal, one has already arrived. Amazon’s Woot portal is selling the 40mm model in several colors (Grey, Pink Gold and Silver) for $250, a savings of $30 or 11 percent off the regular price.  Buy Galaxy Watch 5 at … Read more

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formed a new office designed to help marginalized communities deal with the extra burdens of pollution and climate change, Reuters has reported. The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights will be staffed by 200 EPA employees located in the agency’s Washington head office and 10 regional … Read more

After weeks of rumors, Amazon has officially announced that it plans to hold a second sales event this fall exclusively for Prime members. The second Prime Day of the year, dubbed “Prime Early Access Sale,” will be held on October 11th and 12th in the US, UK, Canada and 12 other countries, following the same … Read more

Next year’s iPhone could introduce a change to Apple’s naming convention. According to Bloombergreporter Mark Gurman, the company could call its largest and most expensive device in 2023 the iPhone 15 Ultra instead of the iPhone 15 Pro Max as you would expect given its recent track record. The shift would reportedly coincide with the … Read more

The anime adaptation of NieR: Automata will be released early next year.The remake is now known as NieR: Automata Version 1.1a will make its debut in January 2023.Yoko Taro, the creator of NieR, revealed the release date over the weekend at Aniplex Online Fest (via Gizmodo), while also revealing that the anime’s story would differ … Read more

The release of Oxenfree II: Lost Signals has been postponed by Night School Studio.The sequel to Oxenfree, released in2016, will not be released until next year, the developer announced on Saturday.”We’re moving our release window to 2023 to make Oxenfree II truly special and add more localizations,” the studio announced on Twitter.The delay was announced … Read more

Yes, robots are on their way to take our jobs.That’s a good thing, and we should be grateful because the jobs they’re taking are pretty bad.Do you really want to go back to manually monitoring, flagging, and investigating the world’s daily bank transfers for financial fraud and money laundering schemes? DBS Bank, Singapore’s largest bank, … Read more

Apple Pay Later may not arrive until next spring, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As you may recall, Apple announced the buy now, pay later feature at WWDC 2022 and said, at the time, that it would arrive alongside iOS 16. Well, the latest version of the company’s mobile operating is here and Apple Pay … Read more