Everyone loves to see a brawl, and there are no more fun fights to watch in the world than those between the top dogs of tech. Usually involving leaks, patents, lawsuits, product launches, and sheer mockery, the battlefield of technology sees a new war daily. The latest ground on which the titans of tech are itching to battle isn’t even a real landscape, but is instead the pockmarked worlds of the video game Starcraft 2....

AT&T, Verizon and a other U.S mobile operators have agreed with U.S regulators to start warning customers that they are approaching their monthly usage limits by issuing alerts to warn them that they may begin to incur additional charges on their bills, theL.A Times reports. Signing voluntary guidelines ahead of proposed government rules, operators would warn customers that they will be subject to increased roaming costs when they travel abroad, keeping them updated on the status of their monthly plan so they receive warnings that they exceed calls, text or data usage limits....

Retailers have flocked to social media over the past few years, but it appears that many of them need to work on the amount that they actually engage with their customers. A new studyfrom consultancy firmAurosput the UK’s top 25 retailers to the test and found that while 4-in-5 of them have a Twitter account and 72% are active on Facebook, only 25% of those on Twitter actually replied to a question directed at them and 50% of questions posted on Facebook walls went unanswered....

According to aYouGov poll, 63% of Europe’s city dwellers want to see a ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars after 2030. The survey asked 10,500 individuals who are residents of 15 cities over eight countries whether they were in favor of the ban. Cities included Paris, Budapest, and London. Of course, a ban of this nature is already set tocome into force in the UK. Residents of Rome were most in favor, with 77% voting for a ban....

Majority of Europeans would consider human augmentation, study finds The survey exposed a huge divide between northern and southern Europe Risks and rewards The respondents also had major concerns about our cyborg future. Almost seven in ten (69%) of them expect only rich people will be able to enjoy access to human augmentation technology, while 88% fear their augmented bodies could be hacked by cybercriminals. But those risks won’t prevent everyone from embracing the tech....