"Ten phones, two laptops, digital cameras... all just sitting here. We're not dealing with it." Louise Lewis is surveying a collection of old gadgets that have piled up in her home. Source

Gamers around the world are preparing for the Fortnite Champions Series, which starts on Saturday. It is the first competitive event since last month's inaugural World Cup in New York, which had a record-breaking $30m (£24m) prize purse. Source

More than a million fingerprints and other sensitive data have been exposed online by a biometric security firm, researchers say. Source

There is growing pressure for more details about the use of facial recognition in London's King's Cross to be disclosed after a watchdog described the deployment as "alarming". Source

A US court has thrown out an attempt by Facebook to stop legal action over the way it collected images of people's faces. The case centres around images people uploaded to Facebook that were later used to help identify them in other pictures. Source

A team of bug-hunters at Google have shared details of five flaws in Apple's iMessage software that could make its devices vulnerable to attack. In one case, the researchers said the vulnerability was so severe that the only way to rescue a targeted iPhone would be to delete all the data off it. Source

Many were left wholly unsatisfied by news that the punishment for Facebook's privacy misdeeds, from the US at least, would be set at $5bn - an amount the firm can well afford, and for which it had already mostly accounted. Source

An advert for one of Dyson's £400 fans has been labelled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The video, for the company's Pure Hot and Cool Fan, suggests the fan is cordless when it actually needs to be plugged in, it said. Source

France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants. The 3% tax will be levied on sales generated in France by multinational firms like Google and Facebook. Source

Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family's Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. Source

People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices, under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced. From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the NHS Choices website when UK users ask for health-related advice. Source

US supermarket giant Walmart has confirmed it uses image recognition cameras at checkouts to detect theft. The cameras identify when items are put in a shopping bag without first being scanned by a cashier, or at the self-service checkout. Source