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Members of the police’s cyber crimes unit said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 21-year-old student who had posted a message on his Facebook page threatening to use an automatic rifle in a killing spree at his technical college, citing the Albanian perpetrator of last week’s armed attack at a bar in Mikrolimano as his inspiration.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly tricking dozens of women into giving him access to their computers, from which he stole personal data, including intimate photos and videos.

The man, who was not named, is alleged to have conned 116 women between May 2013 and October 2014.

Facebook is blocked in China, but its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg appears determined to win over hearts and minds in Beijing -- surprising a hall full of students by conducting a Q&A session in Mandarin.
      

The Russian State Telecom Rostelecom is planning to launch a Russian mobile application, more or less analogous to Skype and Viber, reports ITAR-TASS.

According to the public tender announcement, quoted by the wire service, the company has set aside RUB 72.8 M.

The application, available both for iOS and Android devices, must be ready by beginning of October 2015.

Apple, facing tough competition in the cooling tablet market, on Oct. 16 unveiled a new line-up of iPads

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) has drawn up an interactive map of all the polling stations abroad for Romania's presidential election of November 2, in order to facilitate access to the stations of the Romanian nationals abroad, MAE reports in a press release.

Google's Eric Schmidt said US online spying is a threat so dire it could wind up 'breaking the Internet'

After a lifetime's work in corporations like IBM or in the high-tech heaven of Silicon Valley, Kate Lowes changed the course of her life at 60. She gave up the comfort of an apartment in England, in exchange of the austerity of a house in Sangeorgiu de Meses, a small village in Salaj County, in northwestern Romania.

More than a dozen Hollywood celebrities whose naked pictures were hacked and posted online have threatened to sue Google for failing to crack down on the leaks.

Like all other EU countries, most Balkan countries are using far more than the planet can offer and exploiting its rescources to the point of no return, the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, warned in its latest report.

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