The EU launched its new San Francisco office to liaise with US tech companies and promote EU standards and technologies, digital policies, and governance models (Vish Gain/Silicon Republic) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Utility company Xcel locked 22,000 Colorado users in an energy saving program out of their smart thermostats for hours on August 30 citing an "energy emergency" (Jaclyn Allen/TheDenverChannel.com) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Amazon plans to partner with small and medium-size pharmacies in Japan to launch an online prescription drug marketplace in the country in 2023 (Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Binance will stop supporting the world's second biggest stablecoin USDC and convert users' USDC, USDP, and TUSD into its own stablecoin BUSD on September 29 (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

A look at Saudi Arabia's Kollona Amn app, launched in 2017 to let its citizens inform on activists, as the country expands the use of surveillance technology (Peter Guest/Insider) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

How the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, or NAFO, a group of national security experts and ordinary Twitter users, is using memes to fight Russian propaganda (Mark Scott/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5

LG launches LG Art Lab which lets US users buy, sell, and trade NFTs on its smart TVs, partners with Hedera to enable purchases via LG's crypto wallet, Wallypto (Kate Park/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Vitalik Buterin on proof of work vs. proof of stake, the recent crypto crash, crypto security, decentralized governance, "startup societies", and more (Noah Smith/Noahpinion) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

US parents are increasingly buying Apple Watches as a stopgap cellphone to reach and track their children as young as 5 while mitigating internet addiction (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

In August 2022, Beijing's municipal government unveiled plans to regulate the "Digital Human Industry", which covers digital assistants and virtual influencers (Meaghan Tobin/Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5