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Watch out for romance scams this Valentine’s Day with criminals targeting vulnerable singles on social media. More than 304 million dollars was lost to romance fraud in the US last year - victims looking for relationships are targeted by confidence tricksters who strike up a relationship with them and then claim to be ill or need money for travel. The situation is so serious that TikTok has issued a warning to its users to be extra careful, you can find out more under the hashtag BeCyberSmart and remember in the UK you can report cyber fraud to the national reporting centre that’s at www.actionfraud.police.uk Apple has finally taken action over an issue with its AirTag tracking devices which had seen them misused by stalkers. Now your phone will tell you if there’s an unknown AirTag tracker in the vicinity and it will make it beep loudly so you can quickly find where it is. And while the Rams and the Bengals contested last night’s Super Bowl, one NFL star is putting his face to an innovative online learning platform aiming to do for education what Netflix has done for movies and what Peloton did for fitness. Emile Learning is backed by Atlanta Falcon’s linebacker Brandon Copeland who delivers a course on financial literacy on the platform.