For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. As the UK is on the brink of starting to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, Facebook has updated its misinformation policy to reflect that it will remove false claims about vaccines. The tech giant updated its Coronavirus Newsroom post on …

There’s one thing Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer always tells new engineers starting work at the company. “There are going to be a lot of people in the world who have opinions and high expectations of the work we do,” he says. “And that is entirely appropriate given the reach and scale of the products we build — it’s simply our …

France plans to begin collecting its new digital tax from big tech companies in December, and the country’s Finance Ministry has sent out notices to the affected companies to tell them so, Reuters reported Wednesday. The 3% tax, applies to companies with annual revenue of more than 25 million euros ($28 million) in France and 750 million euros ($832 million) worldwide. …

The Apple Store went offline Tuesday, just hours before the “One More Thing” Mac launch event is set to kick off. This is the third Apple event in three months, following September’s iPad event and October’s iPhone launch. Like the others, this event will be fully online due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Apple is expected to announce its next generation …

Apple has frozen the signing of any new business contracts with Pegatron, one of its key suppliers, after the Taiwanese company was found to be breaking the iPhone maker’s supply chain rules. Apple discovered that Pegatron had falsified paperwork and misclassified workers in order to cover up labor violations, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Pegatron, which supplies parts for Apple’s iPhones, …

Twitter removed a tweet from former prime minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad for violating its rules banning the glorification of violence. In the tweet, which was part of a longer thread about Muslims living in France, Mahathir said that “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.” The …

Mobile networks in the UK have been banned from selling locked phones that can only be used with one carrier. British telecoms regulator Ofcom announced the new rule on Tuesday, although it isn’t due to come into force until December 2021. Several phone networks in the UK, including EE, Vodafone and Tesco Mobile, sell phones as part of contracts that cannot …

Huawei on Thursday welcomed into the world the latest addition to its flagship lineup: the Mate 40 Pro. But the phone’s arrival was bittersweet. The device launched under a dark cloud, with a combination of US sanctions and reputational damage to the company raising the question of whether the Mate 40 Pro will be the last Huawei phone of its …

It’s been an exasperating year as almost every aspect of our lives has needed to be rethought due to the coronavirus pandemic. And one minor niggle that nobody could possibly have foreseen going into 2020 is that wearing masks everywhere has made it impossible to unlock your phone — including Apple’s new iPhone 12 — with your face. That doesn’t …

Instagram is being investigated by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission due to concerns that the social network handled the data of children in a way that may have violated European data protection laws. The investigation, which according to a statement issued by the DPC on Monday, was opened back in September, follows concerns that children may have had their email addresses …