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A 16-year-old girl in the northwestern province of Sakarya's Adapazarı district, who had shared on social media photographs of a cat with eyes gouged out, has been fined 2,202 Turkish Liras by the authorities. 

The girl, identified only as Suda A., had shared on Aug. 22 a photograph of a cat with eyes gouged out along with a statement: "What I like the most."

Internet usage among Turks aged between 16 and 74 rose to 66.8 percent in 2017 from 61.2 percent the previous year, according to a recent Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) survey on information and communication technology usage in households in 2017.

A photo of a man who reportedly rented the white van that plowed into people in Barcelona in a terroristb attack was released. His name is Driss Oukabir, and rented the van from the town of Santa Perpetua de la Mogada which carried out an attack in the center of the Catalan capital.

Due to the fact that social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are inaccessible in China, there exists a whole ecosystem of social networking and messaging platforms that are immensely popular in and around China but hardly known anywhere else in the world.

Ivan Ivanov, better known for his gaming nickname MinD_ContRoL, became a millionaire after an impressive victory at a Dota 2 tournament.
Ivanov is part of Team Liquid, who defeated the Chinese team Newbee in the big final of The International 2017 in the game Dota 2.

On Wednesday, Facebook made its biggest move so far in an attempt to compete on the TV market by expanding its video offers with programs ranging from professional female basketball to a safari show and a program for parents, Reuters reported.

The number of Internet subscribers in Turkey has increased by 126 percent over the past four years, according to data from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), which also pointed to a sharp rise in mobile Internet use. 

The popular Cartoon Network, a children's TV channel, organizes a child vlog contest, reported BGNES. 

For those who don't know what does this mean, vlog is  is a blog that contains video content. It's about person's life, thoughts, opinions, and interests. 

Robert Rauch, CEO of RAR Hospitality explains in an article posted on ehotelier.com that artificial intelligence (AI) in the hospitality industry has arrived and is here to stay:

More than 2,000 people have marched through the streets of Moscow to demand an end to efforts by Russian authorities to control and monitor what is posted online.
Protesters yelled slogans including, “Truth is stronger than censorship” and, “Free country, free internet”, and a handful of people were detained.