News Headlines - 09 October 2019
▽Kansai Electric's top two executives to resign over graft scandal - Reuters
Kansai Electric Power Co Inc’s chairman and president said on Wednesday they would resign to take responsibility for a graft scandal that has rocked Japan’s second-largest utility, in a reversal of their stated intention to stay on.
The announcement comes only a week after the pair said they would remain in their roles to regain trust after revelations that 20 company officials had received payments and gifts worth $3 million from a local government official.
▽A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5-Haptics, UI Facelift, and More | WIRED
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan is still ready to answer it. The console, he tells me, will be called PlayStation 5. "It's nice to be able to say it," he says. "Like a giant burden has been lifted from my shoulders."
So. There you go. PlayStation 5, holidays 2020.
Sony hasn't said too much about the console since April, when WIRED broke the story about development efforts on what was then known only as the "next-gen console." In fact, the company hasn't said anything.
Tiffany & Co. have removed a tweet showing a woman covering one eye after Chinese consumers accused the jeweller of supporting the Hong Kong protesters.
The photo posted on Monday showed Chinese model Sun Feifei wearing a Tiffany ring on her right hand as she covers her right eye.
Angry Chinese buyers believed it was a deliberate echo of the pose adopted by Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrators to denounce police violence in the semi-autonomous city after protesters were struck in the eye.
▽Samuel Little: FBI confirms 'most prolific' US serial killer - BBC News
The FBI has confirmed an imprisoned murderer who confessed to 93 murders over four decades is the most prolific serial killer in US history.
Police have matched Samuel Little, 79, to 50 cases from 1970 to 2005 thus far.
He has been serving life in prison since 2012 for the murders of three women.
A federal judge on Monday said eight years of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax returns must be provided to Manhattan prosecutors, forcefully rejecting the president’s argument that he was immune from criminal investigations.
Trump’s returns will not be turned over immediately, after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan granted the president’s request to temporarily block the order, handed down by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
