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The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years, making it the first COVID-19 shot for young children in the United States. The shot will not be immediately available to the age group. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still needs to advise on how …

ISLAMABAD: The state of digital media freedom in Pakistan remained weak during 2020-21 due to regulatory pressures and threats against online expression. At the same time, the general public was exposed to alarming levels of online disinformation, including false messages about Covid-19 origin and treatment, which put their health and safety at risk. These were the crux of a report, …

Assessing the need for this possibility, a developer managed to get the Google’s Android app store, Google Play Store, working on Windows 11 with all its functions. He used this method to allow users to instal any game or app available there and run it parallel to Windows apps. Microsoft already tested Windows 11 Android app support just past week, …

The persistent syndrome of COVID-19 after-effects known as long COVID can develop after “breakthrough” infections in vaccinated people, a new study shows. Researchers at Oxford University in the UK reviewed data on nearly 20,000 U.S. COVID-19 patients, half of whom had been vaccinated. Compared to unvaccinated patients, people who were fully vaccinated – and in particular those under age 60 …

A gene that helps the coronavirus reproduce itself might contribute to life-threatening COVID-19 in young, otherwise healthy people, new findings suggest. French researchers studied 72 hospitalized COVID-19 patients under age 50, including 47 who were critically ill and 25 with non-critical illness, plus 22 healthy volunteers. None of the patients had any of the chronic conditions known to increase the …

THE HAGUE: Police in Europe and the United States announced on Tuesday the arrest of 150 people who allegedly bought and sold significant volumes of drugs, weapons and other illegal goods on the dark web. Europol and US authorities said they had seized tens of millions of euros in cash and virtual currencies as they rolled up an online underground …

MOSCOW: US tech giant Google has paid Russia more than 32 million roubles ($455,079) in fines for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the company and a Russian lawmaker said after talks on Monday. Russia last week said it would seek to fine the US tech giant a percentage of its annual Russian turnover later this month for repeatedly …

WASHINGTON: The state-backed Russian hacking group that carried out last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberattacks is behind a new and ongoing assault against US and European targets, Microsoft said on Monday. The software giant’s Threat Intelligence Centre (MSTIC) said in a blog post that the Nobelium group was attempting to gain access to customers of cloud computing services and other IT service providers …

LONDON: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told UK lawmakers on Monday that posting content featuring anger and hate “is the easiest way to grow” on the social media platform as she urged better regulation. Haugen, who earlier this year shared a trove of internal documents alleging Facebook knew its products were harming children’s mental health, argued the platform was “unquestionably” fuelling hate. Haugen …

NEW DELHI: Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked documents, even as the internet giant’s own employees cast doubt over its motivations and interests. Based on research produced as recently as March of this year on company memos that date back to 2019, internal company documents on …