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Photo: Peter Forest (Getty Images)We’ve all been there: you go out drinking for a night on the town, down a few drinks, only to wake up with something... missing; maybe it’s your wallet, or your keys, or your phone. Or maybe, if it’s the case of one unnamed contractor working out of Japan, it’s a flash drive holding the personal informationof about half a million residents.According to the national outlet NHK, which first reported the incident late last week, the unidentified dude was a contractor working with the city…

Apple iPhone 12 ProPhoto: Caitlyn McGarry/GizmodoApple is in the spotlight again after a group of Senators published a letter on Thursday asking the US Commerce Department to establish a universal charging standard for smartphones.Signed by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the document urges the Department of Commerce to take after the European Union by coming up with a plan to create a common charging standard. Unlike the EU with its USB-C mandate, these democratic…