TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese ...

An artist specialised in GPS drawings made it his mission to recreate Nintendo’s beloved mascot for Mario Day, by journeying around Paris. Monday marked Mario Day and aside from a fancy new Lego ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany ...

TikTok has been identified as a threat to U.S. national security, domestic user privacy and indigenous tech firms. Each of these threats on its own would be nothing new. Posed all at once by one ...

The new tools are meant to ensure a safer experience for teens on the platform. TikTok is expanding its Family Pairing feature with new tools designed to give parents more control and ensure a ...

The UK press and many on social media are pre-judging that Mr and Mrs Byrne are about to be jailed in Thailand, then to suffer the indignities of “post-probation sentencing” – a silly term ...

President Donald Trump said his administration is working with "four different groups" interested in purchasing TikTok. TikTok was temporarily banned in the U.S. in January, as some government ...

This year, Mario Day is focusing on the game discounts. With the Nintendo Switch 2 right around the corner, deals on the existing console are taking a back seat, while some of the best Mario ...

And if you're interested in joining the Nintendo Switch club, a new Switch OLED console bundle featuring Super Mario Bros. Wonder is available now for $350. The first seven games in the list are ...

As far as Nintendo is concerned it’s a quiet Mario Day this year but Lego has a new set out that may even give a hint as to Mario Kart 9’s release date. Today is Mario Day because it’s MAR ...

Jake Carter and Karen Byrne have announced their engagement, seven years after they met while competing on Dancing with the Stars. The couple, who won the second series of the show in 2018 ...

Alice Jovanée (she/her) is a commerce writer, and she has been writing about gaming and tech since 2005. Prior to Polygon, she worked at publications such as The Verge. To commemorate the day ...