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Tokyo-based advertising giant Dentsu has acknowledged that it overcharged more than 100 clients after it conducted a month-long investigation into its own financial records.
The probe turned up at total of 633 business transactions that warranted suspicion — worth about $2.3 million overall. 
SEE ALSO: Why American ad agencies are being accused of having secret agendas
In some cases, its agency properties charged fees for ads that were never placed. There were also instances in which

As Liz Lemon once said, say yes to staying in more! October is here which means it's basically winter which means it's basically time to be a shut in and watch everything there is to watch. Start with this month's new releases on Amazon Prime.
SEE ALSO: Amazon, Netflix strike deals in India for local video contentTop Pick: The Gift
If you missed Joel Edgarton's unnerving thriller about a couple who reconnects with the husband's high school acquaintance, you can't stream it soon enough. Edgarton'

Where the Wild Things Are is one of the most beloved children’s books in American literary history (even though the wild rumpus was not so warmly welcomed when it was first published in 1963). 
Since then, though, Maurice Sendak’s illustrations and story have been adapted in several forms, most recently for the silver screen in 2009, under the direction of Spike Jonze. 
How did the director of Adaptation pull of this much-scrutinized adaptation? Our CineFix series, What's t

After returning from his youngest son's school night last week, Bob Cornelius discovered a disheartening detail within his son's displayed worksheet. 
In an assignment asking the students to describe themselves, Cornelius' 11-year-old son Christopher, who is on the autistic spectrum, gave a heartbreaking answer. 
When asked, "Some of my friends are," Christopher filled in, "No one." 
SEE ALSO: What your childhood school lunch said about you
His father posted Christopher's workshee

An editor for The Verge took a job with Apple — but didn't tell his employer. 
Chris Ziegler, a founding editor at the tech-focused digital media publication, began working for Apple in July 2016. Ziegler did not tell The Verge, where he had been a deputy editor, and continued to be employed by the website, according to Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel, who posted a note to The Verge on Friday afternoon.
Patel said that the website had become aware of Ziegler's dual employment and investig

Now that dinosaurs are back in the movies, it seems as good a time as any to go back for a closer look at the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the book it was based on.
The Michael Crichton novel that inspired it was a New York Times bestseller, and the filmic dinosaur romp was a roaring box office smash. Our CineFix series, What's the Difference, examines the book and movie side-by-side to see what changed along the way.
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You might be angry that a moose has come into your yard to eat the apples from your apple tree, but scaring it away with a robotic lawn mower just isn’t going to work.
This is what was probably going through the moose’s head:
"Hey, I like apples. I’m going to eat these ones here."
"I love apples."
"These apples are delicious."
"What is this?"
"This annoys me."
"Well, whatever it is, I’m going to stomp on it."
"Okay, problem solved. Back to eating apples."
"Apples are good

Once again Kim Kardashian is making people talk, but this time it has nothing to do with nudity, Snapchat or Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 
On Friday afternoon, social media was set aflame by Ted Cruz's endorsement of presidential candidate Donald Trump. Around the same time, reports also surfaced that Kardashian might also be leaning towards a similar vote come November. 
SEE ALSO: Kim Kardashian, Chrissy Teigen defend North West's passion for fashion
“At first I thought, &ls

LOS ANGELES — After working together on Prisoners and more recently, Bong Joon Ho's monster movie Okja, Jake Gyllenhaal has signed on to star in Paul Dano's directorial debut Wildlife, a period drama that will co-star Carey Mulligan, it was announced Friday.
Dano and his longtime girlfriend Zoe Kazan adapted Richard Ford's 1990 novel, which follows a teenage boy who witnesses the decay of his parents’ marriage after their move to Montana.
Gyllenhaal will join Dano as a producer on th

First Blood, the first Rambo movie, is best known as a major launching point in Sylvester Stallone’s career. But before Rambo became synonymous with Sly, First Blood was a novel by David Morrell.
Our CineFix series, What's the Difference, takes a look at how the story of a troubled Vietnam veteran translates from page to screen.
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LOS ANGELES — The Doctor is in.
Peter Capaldi, the actor behind the The Doctor in Doctor Who, will appear in a spinoff of the show. 📢CONFIRMED!
Peter Capaldi will guest star as the Doctor in #ClassDW's opening episode 🙌#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/u68KL99Tws
— Class (@bbcclass) September 23, 2016Titled Class, the show is a young adult spin off of the hit BBC series. It takes place at Coal Hill School in London, where four high school students Charlie (Greg Austin),

Yesterday, Yahoo confirmed a data breach affecting 500 million accounts, including logins, names, logins, birthdays, and security questions. The good news is that the passwords were encrypted with a strong hash algorithm, so they’re relatively protected for now. The bad news is, the breach happened in late 2014, so all that data has been kicking around for nearly two years.
It’s too early to say exactly which users are in the dump, but the number is so large that if you are a Yahoo u

We figured Google was going to show off its Amazon Echo competitor, Google Home, at its event next month, but up until now, we had no idea on pricing. A report from Android Police today now suggests that the Home will cost $129 when it's released. That’s $50 less than the Echo. We have yet to see how well the Home works, but we do know that while it was built to be used across rooms and to answer questions using Search, Google hasn’t yet opened up its API, so it m

Google is preparing to announce a new home router product called Google Wifi, according to a report from Android Police today. It's expected to debut at the company's October 4th event alongside new Pixel smartphones, a release date for the Google Home speaker, and a 4K-capable Chromecast rumored to be called Chromecast Ultra.
But the Wi-Fi device(s) might be the biggest surprise of the bunch; Android Police claims that Google has designed the Wifi so that multiple units can be linked together.

PriestmanGoode, the design shop behind the new London Tube and this insane luxury space capsule, has released a pair of adjustable seat designs that aim to tackle overcrowding on commuter trains. The seats are adjustable to accommodate 15–30 percent more passengers, depending on the design, the firm says.
Most trains today are a jumble of seat hogs, manspreaders, and highly inefficient design. (As a frequent passenger of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, I can attest

Mira Nair’s inspirational chess drama Queen of Katwe is remarkable in the simplest but most profound way: it’s an American film about Africa that doesn’t feel like it was made by tourists. The film, based on the life of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, was partially shot in the Kampala slum of Katwe, where Mutesi grew up. Nair, the Indian-born, New York-based director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, has worked in Kampala before. She shot part of her film Mississippi Ma

Ruby Kavanaugh — remember that name. The eight-year-old golf sensation has a swing that rivals PGA professionals, and recently put it on display for a drone photographer in Australia. Kavanaugh lines up her tee shot and crushes a beauty headed straight for the center of the fairway. Unfortunately, a Yuneec Typhoon H hexacopter happened to be in her path. The apologetic eight-year-old then watched as the $1,900 drone dropped from the sky. Of course, not everyone believe

Facebook only recently gave users the power to activate the social network’s Safety Check feature, and this week people turned it on during the protests in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first time the feature was used during a protest, Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
The protests were prompted by the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man. The demonstrations turned violent over the course of three days with one protestor being shot to death. A state

Google’s OnHub router was met with decent reception (heh), but a new report by Android Police indicates the company is looking to announce a new router alongside its upcoming probably-called-Pixel phones on October 4. It will simply be called Google Wi-Fi. The router will almost certainly include some of the OnhHub’s ‘smart’ features for simplifying connections and optimizing reception (although whether the OnHub really performed any better than similarly prices rou

The latest episode of Pokémon Generations is now on YouTube, continuing the multimedia, $45 billion franchise’s celebration of its 20th anniversary.
Generations is an animated show created for YouTube that shows highlights from the series’ main games. The latest episode features the epic fight through the Elite Four that players remember from the original games, Red and Blue. This is the third episode, following the first two debuting on YouTube last week. Not o

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Blizzard suffers from more DDoS attacks, and we reviewed World of Warcraft’s excellent new expansion, Legion. We also went behind the wheel for Forza Horizon 3, the new racer for Xbox One.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
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Can you imagine going to a restaurant that made it increasingly harder to get through each course of a meal?
Sure, you can have your appetizers, but to eat your entrée you’ll have to cross the street to another location. And don’t forget to bring your spoon with you — otherwise you can forget dessert!
No, I can’t imagine that either.
But that’s exactly what the game industry does to its custome

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles design chief Ralph Gilles lives in the future, though he’s reticent to share what it looks like. Gilles and I met on a steamy Michigan August day at his spacious office in the Chrysler World Headquarters and Technology Center overlooking the company’s North American headquarters, some 30 miles north of Detroit. But what he thinks, even in theory, will have a major impact on the future of the automobile.Much has changed at Chrysler Corporation since Gilles jo

Audio streaming company SoundCloud today announced a change to the experience for developers who want to build new apps that take advantage of SoundCloud’s application programming interface (API). Now developers will need to submit an application before getting an API key for each app if the app does not already have one.
The application asks developers to tell the company what a given app does, how it generates revenue, whether the use of the API is for a business, and whether it plays ba

The original Watch Dogs is a revenge tale and a warning about the threats that hackers pose to smart cities. Watch Dogs 2 offers the same warning about cybersecurity threats to the future smart city of San Francisco, but it has a different emotional feeling with its celebration of hacktivism subculture in the tech capital of the world.
The sequel stars Marcus Holloway, a hacker who is wrongly accused of a crime as a result of a manipulation of data from the San Francisco’s smart operating

Uber announced today that it’ll require drivers to snap selfies before signing on to the platform and accepting ride requests. The new feature, called Real-Time ID Check, is described as a way to prevent fraud and protects drivers’ accounts from being compromised, but some critics say it’s an acknowledgement by Uber that some drivers have never undergone background checks. It’s also an interesting addition from a company that has long resisted other security measures such

Announced today, a new feature for Uber drivers will require a selfie photo before each shift to verify their identities. Real-Time ID Check aims to prevent fraudulent use of a driver’s account and provide customers with a greater sense of confidence in the ride-sharing company. “Driver account sharing or theft is a low-frequency problem right now, but when it happens it’s a high-severity thing for us so it makes sense to put our security resources on it,” Uber chie

Well that was fast: Apple just released iOS 10.0.2, with the update's release notes confirming that it fixes an issue that caused Lightning headphone controls to be disabled after a period of inactivity. The bug was reported soon after the iPhone 7's launch last week as customers began getting acclimated to life without a headphone jack. Apple said it would address the problem with a software update, and to the company's credit, that happened very, very fast.
Any physical controls that are

It’s rare that we get to peek under the helmets of the Empire’s Stormtrooper corps, but the short Star Wars fanfilm Jakku: First Wave does just that by showing the moments before one of the franchise’s biggest battles.
Jakku: First Wave follows a trio of Stormtroopers deployed to the surface of the desert planet seen in The Force Awakens. The caption that leads the film says that none of the troopers survived the initial assault, which makes this story all the more depressing.

Samsung can’t seem to catch a break at the moment. Three weeks ago, it was discovered that a battery defect was responsible for a number of Galaxy Note 7’s catching fire while on charge. Shortly after, the company announced that it would recall the handset and issue owners a replacement. However, some customers in South Korea who have participated in the exchange program are reportedly experiencing issues with their replacement device. The list of problems includes the unit ove

It took a small ceramic doughnut for me to realize I’m a fat piece of shit. Like most people who work from home, my lifestyle could be better. The most walking I do is when I stagger to the fridge to grab another Diet Coke. Most of the time, I’m sat on my arse writing articles, trolling Twitter, or talking to sources. I know that I have a really unhealthy lifestyle. But I didn’t know how unhealthy it was until I got my hands on Huami’s Amazfit fitness tracker, which curr