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Good News from Battlegrounds Mobile India for IOS PUBG users

Battlegrounds Mobile India was recently launched in India by Krafton. It has reached 10 million downloads on Google Playstore and people all over the country are enjoying it. But IOS users are still waiting for their much-loved PUBG game’s Indian Version Battlegrounds Mobile India because they were left out in the initial rounds of the launch. The latest update is that “this wait will soon be over”. As the Korean company, Krafton is all set to release the IOS version of the much-awaited game sooner for IOS using disappointed fans…

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The View once – Snapchat like feature to be soon added to WhatsApp Beta for IOS

WhatsApp is introducing a lot of new features in its IOS Beta version revolutionizing the messaging experience completely. One of these features is the view-once through which users can share their photos and videos with an ability to make them disappear once they are viewed by other users just like Snapchat. These pictures and videos will be shared by in-app notifications which again is not what WhatsApp usually does. For WhatsApp Beta IOS users, the feature will be available with v2.21.140.9 update as reported by WABetaInfo. Once the feature will…

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New IRS child tax credit portal is now open: Learn what it does

The latest tools from the IRS will help families find out if they’re eligible for the child tax credit payments and opt out if they’d like. We’ll tell you how to use them. Both IRS child tax credit portals are officially available for use, the agency said Tuesday, as well as a new eligibility tool. One portal — called the Child Tax Credit Update Portal — will let you verify if your family qualifies for the tax credit and unenroll from getting monthly payments this year. A Spanish version will be available soon, the…

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India Gives WhatsApp 7 Days to Roll Back New Privacy Policy

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Wednesday has directed Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp to take back its contentious new privacy policy, according to government sources quoted by ANI. According to MeitY, deferral of the privacy policy beyond May 15, 2021, does not absolve WhatsApp from respecting the values of informational privacy, data security and user choice for Indian users, sources told ANI. MeitY has reportedly given WhatsApp seven days to reply to its notice. If WhatsApp’s response isn’t deemed satisfactory, the Indian government may take legal action…

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Facebook Rolls-Out Covid Announcement Tool to Help Health Depts in India

Social media giant Facebook on Wednesday said it is expanding its ‘COVID-19 Announcement’ in India that will help health departments of states and union territories share essential COVID-19 related updates with their communities. India is the second country after the US to launch this feature. Facebook said it has partnered with 33 states and union territories to roll out this tool in their respective jurisdictions. “The COVID-19 Announcement feature will give health departments the ability to push out timely, credible COVID-19 and vaccine information to people in their local communities/ state jurisdictions. States…

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Google Leads US Business Push to Preserve Work Permits for H-1B Spouses

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it was leading about 30 companies and trade groups in opposing a lawsuit that seeks to stop over 90,000 spouses of highly skilled U.S. visa workers from having jobs in the country. The organizations contend undoing employment authorization for spouses would cause financial havoc for families, because most made life choices such as having children or buying homes based on the expectation of two incomes. A federal judge in Washington is expected to decide in the coming months on the lawsuit challenging the work permits tied…

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How to Use Tech to Capture Your Family History

Our elders have rich stories to share. There’s no better time than now to sit down and hit Record IN LESS THAN 10 years, one in five Americans will be over 65 years old. As our parents and grandparents age, we grow one day closer to losing the opportunity to learn their life stories. The good news is that with the various recording options available, you don’t have to be an award-winning filmmaker or videographer to preserve your loved one’s history. Throughout our Midwest childhood, my siblings and I wanted…

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Foreign Entrepreneurs to Gain More Access to Immigration Program

The Biden administration plans to revive an immigration program that lets foreign entrepreneurs work in the U.S. by withdrawing a Trump administration proposal that aimed to kill the program. The International Entrepreneur rule, proposed by President Obama’s administration three days before he left office in 2017, allows foreign entrepreneurs to work in the country for up to five years, so long as their startups attract at least $250,000 in U.S. venture capital, hire 10 employees or meet other benchmarks.

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The Statistical Secrets of Covid-19 Vaccines

They’re really very good, and they’re the only way out of the pandemic. But a tour through the numbers could bring the vaccine-hesitant into the tent. THE CREATION AND distribution of vaccines against Covid-19 has been as close as science gets to a miracle—the culmination of centuries of infectious disease research, a mastery of viral genomics, the creation of a whole new kind of vaccinology, and speed in the face of crisis. So it’s weird that even as the global pandemic worsens (infection and death rates have gone vertical in…

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Facebook Allows Drug Ads to Target Teens, Activists Say

TEENAGERS ON FACEBOOK can be targeted by ads endorsing alcohol, drugs, gambling, smoking, and eating disorders, according to a report by a watchdog group. The Tech Transparency Project created six test ads and submitted them to Facebook, saying it wanted to reach users ages 13 to 17. Facebook approved all the ads within hours, including one promoting pill parties in 43 minutes. “This is an easy fix, and Facebook should have had the foresight to make it a long time ago,” said Tech Transparency Project director Katie Paul. “Whether this…

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