For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after repeated violations of its policies prohibiting dissemination of COVID-19 misinformation, the company said Sunday. The fifth strike that the Georgia Republican received Sunday means …

The next generation of Apple’s AirPods Pro will feature support for lossless audio and come with a charging case that can emit a sound to make locating a misplaced case easier, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Sunday in a note to investors seen by AppleInsider and 9to5Mac. Apple hasn’t updated the AirPods Pro since they launched in 2019, but a …

AT&T and Verizon have rejected a request by US transportation officials to delay the planned launch this week of certain 5G wireless services, but offered to limit the power of their signals for six months, giving regulators more time to study how they could affect aircraft operations. The rejection, which came in a letter from the companies on Sunday, was …

Social network platform Reddit said Wednesday it had confidentially filed a draft registration for a proposed initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reddit frequently ranks among the internet’s most trafficked destinations and played a significant role in the “meme stocks” frenzy. Information shared earlier this year by investors on the network led to a sudden surge in …

The US Department of Labor is investigating allegations from a former Apple employee that the company retaliated against her for raising concerns of unsafe working conditions and complaining of workplace harassment.  The Labor Department confirmed it’s conducting an investigation but declined to identify who lodged the complaint, which was earlier reported by The Financial Times. But former Apple engineering manager …

California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, will leave Congress to run the former president’s new social media company. The Trump Media & Technology group said in a statement that Nunes will serve as its chief executive officer, beginning in January. Trump announced in October it would launch a social network called Truth Social to take …

Twitter has begun testing an overhauled process for users to report harmful tweets, with the goal of simplifying the process by asking users to describe what they’re seeing, the social network said Tuesday. Instead of requiring users to identify which Twitter rule a tweet violates, Twitter’s new “symptoms-first” approach asks them what they felt was wrong with a tweet, relieving …

Samsung on Monday announced a restructuring of the company that includes the replacement of the chiefs of its three major business units and the merging of its mobile and consumer units. The reshuffling represents the electronics giant’s most dramatic corporate makeover in four years. Han Jong-hee, formerly the president of Samsung’s visual display business, was promoted to CEO and will …

The chief executive of digital mortgage lender Better.com informed 900 employees last week they were being laid off just weeks before the holidays during a mass Zoom meeting. “If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off,” Better.com CEO Vishal Garg said Wednesday on the call, a recording of which has since …

A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction against a Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users or blocking posts based on their political viewpoints. HB 20, signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 9, targets companies with at least 50 million monthly users in the US, including Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, and …