Telecommunications company Medion Australia has paid nearly $260,000 for failing to comply with customer identification rules, resulting in a number of people falling victim to SIM-swap scams.
Animoca brands, Chess.com, and five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen have released the first phase of Anichess, a new web-based free-to-play chess strategy game that combines the traditional strategy of chess along with extra spell-casting capabilities, daily missions, quests, and more.
Fruit-flavoured jellies Sour Patch Kids has extended its range with a gaming-themed Sour Patch Kids Gamerz pack, with such shapes as a controller, the Sour Patch Kid with a VR headset and more. Plus, to celebrate, you could win an Xbox console or Game Pass code.
EchoStar subsidiary Dish Wireless has bagged a US$50 million grant from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will be used to fund and establish the Open RAN Centre for Integration & Deployment (Orcid).
Apple has grabbed the top spot in global smartphone shipments for 2023, the first time it has done so and also the first time that a company other than Samsung has taken that position since 2010, the technology analyst firms Canalys and IDC report.
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