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Survey Says Loot Boxes ‘Psychologically Similar’ To Gambling
Survey Finds Loot Boxes Are ‘Psychologically Similar’ To Gambling Loot crates in games have certainly been a huge focus of attention over the last year. The matter certainly came to a head when the Belgian government decided that they were a form of gambling. As such a ban was imposed…
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Belgium Gaming Commission Still Deliberating ‘Loot Boxes’ Issue
UPDATE: November 22, 2017: It appears that the commission is still deliberating about the topic and that a miss-translation of Belgium’s Minister for Justice, Koen Geens’ statement regarding the matter caused some confusion. Belgium’s Gaming Commission has now ruled that loot boxes in games should definitely be classified as gambling.…
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Facebook Activates Safety Check Tool after Brussels Attacks
Facebook has activated its Safety Check Tool as a response to the attacks that recently took place in Brussels. This is the second time that the social media giant has made the tool available to the public, as the first time was back in November when Paris was struck by…
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WhatsApp Messages Led to Belgian Terror Arrests
The FBI have been trying hard to get unlimited access messages passed by encrypted messaging services. However, it apparently didn’t need that level of access to WhatsApp messages sent between members of an alleged Chechen jihadist group operating in Belgium. According to reports released. A pair of men were arrested and warrants were issued…
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Researchers Say Facebook Tracking Violates European Union Privacy Law
Facebook had a lot of privacy concerns in the past, and it looks like they just keep on coming. Researchers from the Belgium data protection agency have also determined that Facebook’s latest web tracking policy violates the European Union privacy law. What Facebook does is it uses cookies to track…
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Facebook Friendship Bracelet To Make its Way at Belgium’s Tomorrowland Music Festival
The Tomorrowland Music Festival is a place where everybody wanting to party and have a good time comes, dances together, has fun and even makes some memories with some new best friends. Most of the friendships however disappear as easily as they are formed, but not at Belgium’s Tomorrowland Music…
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Haswell Powered Mini Macs Seen On Belgium Retailer Website, Launch Set For Next Month?
There hasn’t been any news about newer versions of Mac minis lately. Apple updated its entire Mac lineup in 2013, the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac models were refreshed with the latest Intel Haswell processors, whereas the Mac Pro received a complete makeover, including radical changes to its design.…
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Xbox One Delayed To 2014 For Eight European Countries
Microsoft has officially confirmed that eight European countries will get the console late, in 2014. The eight countries who will experience a delay in the product’s arrival are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. That said in November the Xbox One is still expected to arrive on…
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