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New Delhi: Facebook has announced details of how they will pitch in to help with emergency response and relief measures as India continues to struggle with a deadly COVID-19 wave. There is confirmation that Facebook have a $10 million grant for India, something that Mark Zuckerberg had announced in a post a few days ago. Facebook will also be partnering with NGOs in India and also have the Vaccine Finder tool update for the app which will begin rolling out this week for users in India. This announcement from Facebook comes as big tech companies are helping India at a time when the COVID wave has led to a spike in daily infections and deaths as well as shortage of medical supplies and oxygen.

New Delhi: There is always a nascent fascination for photos of earth from space, and Oxford University’s research fellow, Toby Ord, has restored them all in ultra high definition.

1/5 Shot on July 21, 1969 from the orbiter module of the iconic Apollo 11 mission, this is possibly one of the most famous photos of earth from space. Shot on a Hasselblad with a Zeiss 80mm f/2.8 lens, the photo shows ‘earthrise’ – the possible equivalent of moonrise seen from Earth, where the upper hemisphere of the planet shines bright behind the Eagle lunar module. (Image: NASA, Toby Ord, Oxford University)

WhatsApp is said to be testing a new option, that would allow users to set the messages to automatically vanish 24 hours after being sent. WhatsApp users can currently set their messages to disappear seven days after they are sent. According to reports by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is set to expand the functionality of this feature in the near future.

When the seven-day message disappearing feature was introduced last year on WhatsApp, the company had said it was starting with seven days to offer "peace of mind that conversations aren’t permanent, while remaining practical so you don’t forget what you were chatting about." This hints at the company always planning to offer more functionality with regard to the feature.

New Delhi: Google Chrome has a new way to track you, in a method that the company called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. The company has claimed that it is a better way to give advertisers (read: its revenue team) what they want and also leave some semblance of privacy to its users. However, privacy advocates have since spoken out against it, and especially its automated imposition of FLoC trials upon a randomised selection of users. What’s particularly surprising to note is how Google has begun its trials without any clear disclosure of the same, and FLoC trials for 0.5 percent of all Chrome users are now active alongside standard cookie tracking as well.