The EU’s powerful anti-trust regulator slapped tech giant Google with a new fine on Wednesday over unfair competition, in Europe’s latest salvo against Silicon Valley. In its third major decision against the search engine behemoth, Brussels sanctioned Google’s once popular AdSense advertising service, saying it illegally restricted client websites from displaying ads from ad service rivals.

The Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (CIT) held a session to discuss the executive draft law to combat cybercrimes. The session was held in the presence of members of the data and information security workgroup at the chamber, and a group of software and smart applications developers, in addition to members of the board of directors of the chamber, and representatives of the Central Bank of Egypt, the ministry of electricity, and the Egyptian Computer Emergency Readiness Team (EG-CERT). “The bylaw with all its details came as very encouraging to the sector of investment. It keeps up with the developments in technology in a way that ensures the rights of both companies and users are preserved,” said Mohamed Hegazy, head of the legislations and laws committee and the ministry of information technology and telecommunications during the presentation for the draft laws.

A semi-annual report submitted by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly s Cabinet has listed achievements in the quality of Egypt s scientific research and technological systems. On top of these achievements was Egypt advancing on the Global Innovation Index (GDI) by 10 ranks in the fiscal year 2018/2019, compared to last year, ranking 95th.

Samsung Electronics celebrated a decade of Galaxy S series innovations by presenting the latest premium smartphone: Galaxy S10, according to a press statement on Wednesday. Precisely engineered to deliver next generation experiences across display, camera and performance categories, the Galaxy S10 range is designed for consumers who seek a premium smartphone that takes the mobile experience toward an all-new level.

Are you always brushing your teeth? One look inside your mouth and your dentist will know. The worse the condition of the teeth, the lower on average the social status of the patient. At the same time, teeth are like a fingerprint: forensics can use a dental impression to identify the perpetrator or the victim at a crime scene. We ve known this ever since Inspector Columbo, played by Peter Falk, fished chewing gum out of a trash can in the well-known television series and solved a case. Here s where it gets exciting: Researchers now claim to be able to draw information from a child s teeth about whether they are likely to develop mental illness. In older people, on the other hand, teeth may reveal whether they have been exposed to heavy metals and whether there is a high risk of Alzheimer s disease.

A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage, the United Nations said Wednesday in a landmark report on the planet’s parlous state. Deadly smog-inducing emissions, chemicals polluting drinking water, and the accelerating destruction of ecosystems crucial to the livelihoods of billions of people are driving a worldwide epidemic that hampers the global economy, it warned.

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for internet users to strive to maintain “complete control” of their data. Berners-Lee, credited with creating the web in 1989, is on a mission to save his invention from a range of problems increasingly dominating online life, including misinformation and a lack of data protection. “You should have complete control of your data. It’s not oil. It’s not a commodity,” he told a small group of journalists gathered at Europe’s physics lab CERN, where he first came up with the idea for the web 30 years ago.

A text-generating “bot” nicknamed Tobi produced nearly 40,000 news stories about the results of the November 2018 elections in Switzerland for the media giant Tamedia — in just five minutes. These kinds of artificial intelligence programs — available for nearly a decade — are becoming more widespread as news organizations turn to them to produce stories, personalize news delivery and in some cases sift through data to find important news.

Facebook’s Regional Director of Public Policies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Nashwa Ali announced that Facebook users jumped to 2.7 billion world wide, with 38 million daily users in Egypt. Ali added that the users of Facebook hit 181 million monthly in the MENA while users of WhatsApp, Instagram and Messanger totaled 2 billion a month.

Signify, previously Philips Lighting, considers Egypt as an important regional hub to increase its exports to North and East Africa in the company s growth plans for 2019. The company won a deal to install its smart lighting systems at five stadiums in Egypt where the African Cup of Nations 2019 will be held. The company s revenues were EGP 700m during last year, and it targets to reach EGP 1bn in 2019. Recently, Signify partnered with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities in order to illuminate Cairo s Mohamed Ali Palace with more than 600 LED lamps, as well as 80 flood lights and up lights, as a part of a series of projects to install low-energy LED lighting systems in a number of cultural and heritage sites and public facilities in Egypt, including the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, the Baron Palace, and the Cairo Opera House.

France will introduce a bill Wednesday to tax internet and technology giants on their digital sales, and thus curb efforts to pay global levies in countries with lower tax rates. The bill, to be discussed by cabinet ministers before being submitted to parliament, is a proposal by Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire to have companies pay a tax of three percent on much of their digital sales in France. The government hopes the move will catch on abroad despite an earlier failure to reach consensus at the European Union level.

The Cabinet’s media center denied claims on Tuesday that the government has monitored chats across social media including Facebook and Twitter in accordance to the Information Technology Crimes Law. According to the media center’s statement, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology denied these rumors and stressed that the law was free from any articles stipulating to monitor chats of social media users.

When the misty skies cleared over southern France on the afternoon of Sunday March 2, 1969, the green light was signaled for the highly anticipated first ever flight of the Concorde. Journalists had been alerted two days earlier that the test flight was imminent; the world had been waiting since the futuristic aircraft, with its pointed nose and triangular wings, was publicly presented in December 1967.

NASA and SpaceX celebrated the successful launch Saturday of a new astronaut capsule on a week-long round trip to the International Space Station — a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil after an eight-year break. This time around, the only occupant on board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule was a dummy named Ripley — but NASA plans to put two astronauts aboard later this year.

The Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Amr Talaat, witnessed on Wednesday a contract signing between Microsoft and Telecom Egypt (TE) to establish Microsoft s first date centre in Egypt which will improve the service provided to Microsoft s customers. The new collaboration will expand the services of Microsoft in Egypt, as well in Africa and the Middle East, the minister said on the side-lines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Samsung, the tech giant, unveiled on Wednesday a new line of smartphones-the Galaxy S10. The new smartphone comes with triple-cameras, ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensors, and is the first mainstream phone to have one-terabyte (TB) of storage.

South Korean tech giant Samsung said it aims to expand production lines in Egypt for home appliances and mobile phones, a statement by the Egyptian investment and international cooperation ministry said on Tuesday. The Egyptian investment ministry quoted Samsung officials as saying during a high-profile Egyptian delegation s visit to the East Asian country that it has invested $265 million in Egypt in the past years.

Huawei unveiled a new foldable smartphone on Sunday on the eve of the world’s top mobile fair in Barcelona and hit out against Washington’s campaign to bar it from developing next-generation 5G wireless networks. China’s most successful global firm has booked a huge stand at the four-day Mobile World Congress and has sent a large delegation which includes its media-shy founder, Ren Zhengfei, and two rotating chairmen.

Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghafar announced that a Russian insurance company has covered the costs for the third Earth observation satellite EgyptSat-A’s $100 million cost, following the loss of EgyptSat-2 in 2015. EgyptSat-A has been rotating around Earth for one hour and 20 minutes since its launch on Thursday, and would be able to send photos during this week, Ghafar said. The satellite weighs 1150 kilograms and is equipped with high technology enabling it to rotate around the country several times a day.

Samsung, the tech giant, unveiled on Wednesday a new line of smartphones-the Galaxy S10. The new smartphone comes with triple-cameras, ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensors, and is the first mainstream phone to have one-terabyte (TB) of storage. The inauguration of the Galaxy S10 is considered to be the tech firm s most important event this year, as Samsung is fighting intense competition from China s Huawei and the US s Apple.