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PayPal is Sending Out Data Breach Notifications to Thousands of Users!
Data breaches are, somewhat unfortunately, a relatively common thing now in the online world. When it comes to something like PayPal, however, this clearly raises alarm bells as it not only involves people’s money but also what is arguably one of the most convenient payment methods around. If you are,…
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Reddit Plans to Go Public in March with $15 Billion Valuation
Unlike many social media platforms that have stagnated over the last few years, Reddit is one of the few that continues to show strong signs of growth. It hasn’t, therefore, been overly surprising to see that over the last year the company has been making more and more overtures to…
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Economists Find Investing in Lego Could Earn you More Than Gold!
Presuming you have more money than you really know what to do with (which I sadly don’t), it’s generally never bad advice to try and find something you can invest in. For most though, this generally tends to revolve around either stocks, precious metals, or in more recent years, perhaps…
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Amazon to Accept Bitcoin Before the End of the Year?
With more and more major organisations choosing to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, it was always a matter of curiosity if Amazon would ever decide to get on board with it. While it’s always been well known that the retail giant has been considering it for quite some…
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Bitcoin is Booming Again – But No One Seems to Know Why
Since around the middle of the year, I’ve been getting something of a feeling that Bitcoin (and likely Cryptocurrency in general) was on the verge of something pretty major again. Don’t ask me why, but it’s hard to deny that demand for graphics cards has again been on the rise…
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Apple Stops Facebook from Disclosing its 30% App Store Fee
As you may be aware, Apple and Epic Games are currently in the opening sessions of what will undoubtedly be a long legal battle over the former’s policy of taking a 30% cut of any app store purchases. In a report via TechSpot, however, it seems that another dispute with…
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Blizzard In Turmoil as Angry Staff Share Wage Details
It’s been a news story that’s been rumbling underground for the last couple of months, but put simply, it seems that many people who work for Blizzard Entertainment are currently more than a little unhappy regarding their work situation and salaries. Specifically, that after a recent wage increase, it seems…
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Family Recovers the $20k Their Kid Donated on Twitch
Around three weeks ago, a story came to our attention that would be enough to send a shiver down the spine of any parent whose kids are allowed to access the internet. What was it? Well, to their horror, one family found that their son had just blown just under…
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Sony is Giving Free PS Store Credit to PS Plus Members
Apparently, the PlayStation Plus service has just turned 10-years old. How time flies right? Well, following growing reports on Reddit, it seems that if you are currently subscribed to their service, you might have a very pleasant surprise awaiting you in your next log-in. What is it I hear you…
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Reddit User Says Their Child Blew $20K on Twitch Donations
It’s something of the stuff of nightmares that with the relative ease of making financial transactions via an online platform, one day your kid/s might rack up a ridiculously huge bill. We saw only last week how a parent was hit with a near £5,000 Roblox bill! Well, it seems…
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Fiancé Blows Wedding Money on a Gaming PC
Having been married for a little over 10-years now, I am fully-aware that weddings are an expensive thing. Eye-watering so at times! Following an amazingly detailed post on Reddit, however, one user has told the story on how her Fiancé just spent their entire budget (wedding and honeymoon) on a…
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Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny (Again) as Student Blows £3,000 on FUT!
It’s a sad reality of modern gaming that many titles today have built-in ‘features’ that allow you to spend even more money on what is, for all intents and purposes, gambling mechanics. Be it currencies to accelerate processes or the purchasing of ‘loot boxes‘ for in-game items/skins, while governments around…
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Magic Leap Confirms Major Restructuring as Cash Runs Thin!
Magic Leap first launched its consumer-level AR (augmented reality) headsets to the market in mid-2018 and, so far, sales have been more than a little disappointing. How badly is it doing? Well, while we don’t have any up-to-date figures, we do know that as of December 2019, total sales were…
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Japanese Student Wins (and Loses) $46,000 at Gaming Contest
In recent years, the prize pools given at competitive gaming tournaments have gotten pretty amazingly high. At some competitions, you can win as much as 7 digit prizes for being the best at a particular game. This does, however, get a little more complicated if you’re entering an eSports competition…
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Gaming Represents Nearly 50% of UKs Entertainment Spending
Without a doubt, one of the biggest entertainment industries in the world at the moment is gaming. I mean, these days, the chances are that you probably spend far more on gaming than, for example, buying albums or going to the cinema. In a report via GamesIndustry, however, recent figures…
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