Technology

BIRMINGHAM (Alab­ama, US): Amazon.com warehouse workers in Alabama voted on Friday against forming a union by a more than 2-to-1 margin — a major win for the retailer. But the union, hoping to reignite the US labor movement, said it would challenge the results, citing election interference. National Labour Relations Board representatives counted 1,798 votes against forming a union, with …

SANTIAGO: A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to recent evidence that mammals roamed that part of South America a lot earlier than previously thought. A part of the creature’s fossilized jawbone with five teeth attached were discovered close to the famous Torres del Paine …

Social media company Facebook suspended 16,000 accounts for selling or buying fake reviews of products and services on its platforms, after the Britain’s competition watchdog intervened for the second time, the regulator said. US-based Facebook also made further changes to detect, remove and prevent paid content which could mislead users on its platforms, including popular photo-sharing app Instagram, UK’s Competition …

Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, has been extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft’s professional networking site said based on an investigation. The incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the platform was included, LinkedIn said in a blog post on Thursday, adding that the information on sale is a collection of …

PESHAWAR: The traffic police of the provincial capital have launched a YouTube channel to educate road users about traffic rules and update them on traffic situation on the local roads. Chief Traffic Officer Abbas Ahsan launched the channel during a special ceremony at the traffic police’s headquarters here. He said the YouTube channel would telecast programmes in both Urdu and …

Edkasa, a Lahore-based education technology startup has managed to raise pre-seed funding of $320,000 to help launch a new mobile application for exam preparation, the company said on Tuesday. The new app will leverage and make use of Edkasa’s existing userbase of 55,000 students and more than 40 schools throughout Pakistan which currently avail its services, according to a statement from the …

PARIS: The images capture drama billions of years ago in the early universe — glinting galaxies, glowing with stars that have exploded into supernovas and blazing jets fired from black holes. Europe’s giant LOFAR radio telescope has detected stars being born in tens of thousands of distant galaxies with unprecedented precision, in a series of studies published on Wednesday. Using …

WASHINGTON: Facebook usage has held steady in the United States despite a string of controversies about the leading social network, even as younger users tap into rival platforms such as TikTok, a survey showed on Wednesday. The Pew Research Centre survey from early 2021 found 69 per cent of American adults use Facebook, and 72pc used at least one social …

Facebook Inc on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a feature in 2019 and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying the problem at the time. Business Insider reported last week that phone numbers and other details from user profiles were available in a public database. Facebook said “malicious …

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a new automated system for the blocking of lost, stolen and snatched mobile phones. Titled ‘Lost & Stolen Device System (LSDS)’, the new system will provide ease and facilitation to the users who want to get a mobile phone blocked in case it has been stolen, snatched or lost. “Complainants can easily file …