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Apex Legends players are reporting a bug surrounding the game’s anti-cheat software that is making them get banned. As reported by Dexerto, players of the free-to-play battle royale are taking to Reddit and claiming that the game’s anti-cheat feature isn’t working as it’s intended. It seems that the main issue is caused when a player’s internet drops, which the anti-cheat software reacts to by flagging the player’s account. One player named Cauliflowwer explained that their friend was perma-banned due to the bug,…

BT CEO Philip Jansen urged the British government on Monday not to move too fast to ban China's Huawei from the 5G network, cautioning that there could be outages and even security issues if it did. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to decide this week whether to impose tougher restrictions on Huawei, after intense pressure from the United States to ban the Chinese telecoms behemoth from Western 5G networks.Johnson in January defied President Donald Trump and granted Huawei a limited role in the 5G network, but the…

Nirmala Sitharaman went on to add that cryptocurrencies are by definition borderless and require international collaboration to prevent regulatory arbitrage Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that cryptocurrencies could be banned or prohibited only after significant international collaboration on the risks, benefits, and evolution of common taxonomy and standards. The Reserve Bank of India supports banning cryptocurrencies in India but there should be an international collaboration to make the crypto…

US officials are considering discussing a Defence Department proposal this month to close regulatory loopholes that have allowed Chinese chipmaker SMIC to buy critical US technology, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Some Commerce Department officials are trying to block the Defence Department's proposal, the Journal added, citing people familiar with the matter.Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) was added to a US blacklist last year that denies it access to advanced manufacturing…

The US Food and Drug Administration or FDA has issued an administrative stay on its previous order it issued last month for vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market. The…

Image via Illumination How far does someone have to go before a trend or activity gets ruined for everyone? This is exactly what has happened after the #Gentleminions trend blew up on social media. Now, cinemas are barring entry to anyone wearing formal attire to watch Minions: The Rise of Gru. Twitter user @gillduds shared a sign that was posted on Odeon Cinemas in the UK, where it said that anyone wearing formal wear will be barred from entry to watch the Minions sequel due to guests causing disturbances.…

Airbnb is permanently banning all parties and events at host properties around the world, it announced. That follows a temporary 2020 ban it had instituted on house parties to comply with COVID-related social distancing restrictions. "Over time, the party ban became much more than a public health measure," Airbnb said in a blog post. "It developed into a bedrock community policy to support our Hosts and their neighbors." Airbnb had already banned "chronic party houses" in 2019 following a California Halloween shooting…

Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on single-use plastics. in Toronto. June 20, 2022.Steve Russell | Toronto Star | Getty ImagesCanada is banning the manufacture and import of single-use plastics by the end of the year, the government announced on Monday, in a major effort to combat plastic waste and address climate change.The ban will cover items like checkout bags, cutlery, straws, and food-service ware made from or containing…

Canada is companies from producing and importing a handful of single-use plastics by the end of the year, reports. Among the items the country won’t allow the production of include plastic shopping bags, takeout containers and six-pack rings for holding cans and bottles together. The federal government will subsequently prohibit the sale of those same items in 2023, with an export ban to follow in 2025. The one-year gap between the initial ban and the one that follows is designed to give businesses in Canada enough…

According to French government officials, in order to preserve the purity of the language, many well-known phrases from the gaming community are to be banned. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=;t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e); s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',…