TikTok will reportedly face a fine of over €500 million ($553 million) for transferring Europeans’ private data to China. Bloomberg said on Thursday that Ireland’s data protection commission, which regulates TikTok owner ByteDance’s EU operations, coul…
Continue reading "TikTok reportedly faces a €500 million fine for sending private user data to China"The entry-level laptop from modular computing company Framework, which we first saw in February, is almost ready to roll. Founder and CEO Nirav Patel said on Wednesday that you can reserve the Framework Laptop 12 on April 9 at 11AM ET.
The Framework La…
England’s top-tier soccer league will soon use optical tracking to automate portions of offside calls. The Premier League said on Tuesday it will adopt semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) in live matches beginning on April 12. The league said the …
Continue reading "The Premier League will speed up offside calls with optical tracking tech starting next week"Score another one for regulatory scrutiny. Following a 2022 Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation, Google said on Friday that it’s adding the UK to the list of countries where it supports user choice billing. This lets Android developer…
Continue reading "Google Play will offer user choice billing in the UK"Google’s Pixel 9a, a candidate to be the “midrange smartphone king,” was announced last week but delayed at the last second due to a component problem. Today, we finally know when the handset will arrive: April 10 in North America.
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There's a lot in the world to be angry about today. So, why not do like we did in the '90s and channel that aggression into beating the living hell out of bad guys in a delightfully loud and over-the-top arcade game? Marvel Cosmic Invasion take…
Continue reading "Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a ’90s-style beat-’em-up in the mold of Shredder’s Revenge"The highly customizable Vivaldi web browser now has built-in ProtonVPN integration. CEO Jon von Tetzchner described the collaboration as part of a broader shift toward "privacy over profiling, sovereignty over surveillance, independence over inert…
Continue reading "The customizable Vivaldi browser adds built-in ProtonVPN"Uber has new shuttle routes for NYC travelers. Less than six months after launching bus rides between LaGuardia Airport and Manhattan, the company is adding four routes between John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Manhattan.
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Codemasters' Formula 1 franchise is back for another lap. Publisher EA says the tracks in F1 2025 have a more realistic look and feel, thanks to LiDAR scanning. The new installment arrives on May 30.
Although EA didn't offer much detail about L…
As it turns out, including a reporter in your national security leader group chat about military strikes isn't the only way to compromise sensitive information on Signal. NPR reported on Tuesday that, days after the Trump administration's prepo…
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