Technology

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the United States, alleging that the online retailer tricked consumers into subscribing to its “Prime” service and made the cancellation process intentionally complicated. The lawsuit includes four civil charges against Amazon for “manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface” and seeks a permanent injunction on
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Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, has initiated a Senate investigation into Amazon’s health and safety practices. This move is part of Sanders’ ongoing efforts to hold large corporations accountable for their actions. Allegations Against Amazon Sanders’ letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy accused the company of “egregious
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Pangolins are unique creatures, with their hard scales being one of their most fascinating features. Researchers from the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart were intrigued by how pangolins can curl up their scale-covered bodies so quickly. They decided to use the animal as a model and develop
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US-based semiconductor firm Intel is set to invest $25 billion in a new plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the country’s largest-ever foreign investment. Plant Details According to the Israeli finance ministry, Intel’s new facility will open by 2027 in the southern city of Kiryat Gat and operate until
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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new process for producing transparent quartz glass with high resolution and excellent mechanical properties. The process involves printing micro- and nanometer-scaled quartz glass structures from pure silicon dioxide, using a hybrid organic-inorganic polymer resin as the feedstock material. The process enables the free-form printing
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Microsoft’s flagship office suite, Outlook email, OneDrive file-sharing apps, and cloud computing platform suffered from sporadic but serious service disruptions in early June. It was later revealed that a shadowy hacktivist group, known as Anonymous Sudan, was responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The group flooded Microsoft’s sites with junk traffic. Initially, Microsoft was
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