For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The New York Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Amazon, alleging the internet retailer failed to safeguard its warehouse employees in New York from COVID-19. “Throughout the historic pandemic, Amazon has repeatedly and persistently failed …

T-Mobile customers in Texas were hit by a service outage on Monday as a powerful winter storm paralyzed much of the state. Angry customers complained on DownDetector of being unable to make calls or text since about 6 a.m. PT on Monday. The outage appears to be affecting customers in major cities from north to south, including Dallas, Houston and …

Social media platform Parler announced its return to the internet on Monday, more than a month after it was forced offline for allowing inflammatory posts about the Capitol Hill insurrection. The Twitter alternative, which had become a haven for racist and right-wing extremist content, was forced offline in January when Amazon Web Services cut services to it. It wasn’t immediately clear who …

Video conferencing app Microsoft Teams is suffering an apparent outage Thursday evening in major cities across the US but particularly on the West Coast. The outage, which appears to have begun around 4:15 p.m. PT, appears to mostly be affecting users Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to DownDetector. Users on the site reported being unable to log into …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Instagram on Wednesday took down the account of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for sharing false claims about the coronavirus, parent company Facebook said. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a Facebook spokesperson said …

Amazon said Wednesday it plans to equip its delivery vans with cameras powered by artificial intelligence in an effort to improve driver safety. The internet retailer said it had recently started rolling out technology across its delivery fleet, confirming plans disclosed in an Amazon instructional video reported by The Information earlier in the day. The AI cameras, developed by transportation …

John Matze, the CEO and co-founder of social media platform Parler, said in a LinkedIn post Wednesday that he’s been fired by the company’s board. Matze’s termination came just weeks after Parler, which had become a haven for racist and right-wing extremist content, was forced offline for allowing posts about the Capitol Hill insurrection. The storming of the Capitol on …

Global smartphone shipments bounced back in the fourth quarter from the sales slump caused by the outbreak a year ago of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures released on Wednesday by market researcher IDC. And much of that rebound can be credited to Apple. Vendors shipped 385.9 million handsets during the quarter, a 4.3% increase over the year-ago period in …

A vulnerability identified in the popular video-sharing app TikTok exposed users to having personal information scraped from their profile, including their phone number and profile settings, security researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point said Tuesday. That information could have been used to manipulate users’ account details and build a database of TikTok users for malicious activity, researchers said. The flaw …

Samsung on Monday unveiled a new low-power OLED smartphone display that will make its debut on the new Galaxy S21 Ultra. The electronics giant says the new display tech reduces power consumption by 16% by speeding up electron flows in the display’s organic layers. Display panels are a major power hog in smartphones. OLED displays contain pixels made of organic …