The popular online messaging company such as Skype and WhatsApp will have to face stricter rules on managing users under new data and security laws slated to be proposed by the European Union. European Union executives are reportedly attempting Handing Over The Top service.All the online web services company will have to guarantee the confidentiality of the communications and will have to obtain users permission to process their location data. The telecom companies have long complained that companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet Inc's Google are more lightly managed, despite offering similar services.
Alcatel, a brand of mobile handsets owned by Chinese Electronics Company, launched its new innovative smart wearable devices at IFA 2016 Berlin.
Turkey, the country who planned to connect Europe and Asia for the third time was successful by building the world's biggest suspension bridge. It is built in the style of New York's Brooklyn Bridge and boasts pylons higher than the Eiffel Tower. The bridge creates a new link across the Bosphorus Strait, which divides Asia and Europe.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft have recently joined the European Union’s anti-racism efforts to crack down online hate speech in an ‘online code of conduct’ which the four internet giants helped to create. The code will allow the Silicon Valley titans to review requests by government to remove access to hate-filled contents and block comments or remarks that espouse racism, discrimination, and xenophobia.
Dark Souls 3’s recent anti-cheating patch update resulted to an unintended freezing which prompted game developer ‘From Software’ to roll back the patch. Meanwhile, From Software continues to affirm that the game’s Poise stat is not a glitch, contrary to the widespread view held by some gamers.
Beset by multiple problems and other setbacks, the joint Europe-Russian ExoMars project would have to postpone the launching of its second mission to Mars from 2018 to 2020. ExoMars is an overt mission to find signs life in the red planet.
The Belgian government has just announced a massive distribution of iodine pills to its citizens who live within 62 miles (100km) around the country’s nuclear facilities. While health authorities say the move is part of the country’s nuclear emergency plan, many citizens think the iodine pill distribution is a pre-emptive anti-nuclear terrorism plan following recent terrorist attacks in Brussels.
A recently published report on the status of the refugee crisis in Europe revealed that more than 100, 000 people have reached Greece and Italy prompting other EU states to implement stricter policies to curb migration.
Europe failed to properly deal with the refugee crisis in 2015, an Amnesty International report said.
The company has not described the number of products recalled and the financial impact of the recall. Plastic bits were found in a Mars bar in Germany.
A natural gas accident blasted a five-story apartment in the Russian city of Yaroslavl leaving 7 people dead and many more wounded, injured, and missing.
Turkey expressed that it has now stretched its “capacity to absorb” prompting the EU to offer 3 billion euros worth of aid to help the country deal with the massive influx of Syrian refugees fleeing war and persecution.
Thousands of Syrians continue to flee Aleppo as the civil war continues to wreak havoc on civilians.
Cuban leader Raul Castro left Havana for a two-day state visit to Paris, France in a bid to bring in French investments to the country’s economy amid an ongoing normalization of political and economic ties with the United States.
At least 43 migrants - with 17 of them being children - have drown after two boats capsized.
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