Facebook Unveils 'On This Day' Tool to Bring Back Memories

Similar to its 'Look Back' and 'Year in Review' features, Facebook can now show you what you did/ posted on the same day in the past. The social networking site on Tuesday introduced a new feature called 'On This Day' to take you through those old memories that you may have forgotten.

Announcing the new feature, Facebook noted that it is not yet available to all users, and will be rolling out globally over the next few days.

The On This Day feature will show you posts, photos, videos shared by you or tagged by others from the same date in the past years, all on a single page, unlike the curated video format in Look Back but similar to the timeline format of Year in Review.

Facebook's new On This Day feature will be accessible on both desktop and mobile in the bookmarks menu, search, News Feed stories, and also on a dedicated page - https://www.facebook.com/onthisday.

Once on the page, users can choose to subscribe to notifications so that they will get an alert whenever they have memories to look back on. Users will also be able to edit and delete old posts, or decide to share the memories with their friends, notes Facebook.

"For example, you might see past status updates, photos, posts from friends and other things you've shared or been tagged in - from one year ago, two years ago, and so on. Only you will see this content unless you decide to share it with your friends."

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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Finds Mars Has Nitrogen, Key to life

Nasa's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said Tuesday.By drilling into Martian rocks, Curiosity found evidence of nitrates, compounds containing nitrogen that can be used by living organisms.

The Curiosity team has already found evidence that other ingredients needed for life, such as liquid water and organic matter, once existed at the site known as Gale Crater.

"Finding a biochemically accessible form of nitrogen is more support for the ancient Martian environment at Gale Crater being habitable," Jennifer Stern of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland said in a statement.

Nitrogen is essential for all known forms of life, because it's a building block of DNA and RNA.

However, "there is no evidence to suggest that the fixed nitrogen molecules found by the team were created by life," Nasa cautioned.

"The surface of Mars is inhospitable for known forms of life."

The research team suggested that instead, the nitrates are ancient and likely came from meteorite impacts, lightning and other non-biological processes.On Earth and Mars, nitrogen is found in the form of nitrogen dioxide gas -- two atoms locked together so tightly that they do not react easily with other molecules.

The nitrogen atoms must be separated or "fixed" so they can participate in the chemical reactions needed for life.

"On Earth, certain organisms are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and this process is critical for metabolic activity," Nasa said."However, smaller amounts of nitrogen are also fixed by energetic events like lightning strikes."

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Google 'Pony Express' to Reportedly Enable Bill Payments via Gmail

Google is reportedly testing a tool that will let you pay bills directly from your Gmail inbox.

According to a Re/ code report on Tuesday, the tool or service is presently codenamed Pony Express and is under development.

With the Pony Express service, Google is aiming to provide an easy tool for people to pay bills directly from their Gmail inbox as well as the Inbox by Gmail service.

Re/ code claims to have seen the documents concerning Google's Pony Express service, documents that indicate the service is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter.

As per the documents, Pony Express will ask Gmail users to provide personal information such as name, address and partial and full social security number to a third-party company which will then verify the user's identity. Users might also have to provide information such as account/ credit/ debit card number or something similar to get started, notes the report

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Spectrum Auction Bids Rise to Rs. 1,09,000 Crores at End of Day 18

Government's kitty from the telecom spectrum auction on Tuesday rose to Rs. 1,09,000 crores with the provisional allocation of 89 percent radiowaves made at the end of the 18th day.The amount of bids received on Monday had declined to Rs. 1,05,000 crores from Saturday's Rs. 1,07,000 crores.

"At the end of 110th round, about 89 percent of the spectrum has been provisionally allocated to bidders. The provisional amount committed by bidders at the end of 110th round is over Rs. 1,09,000 crores," the Department of Telecom said.

In the stretch of 18 days, it was the first time that auction for the day closed with no excess demand in any of the telecom service areas, indicating that the auction may resume on Wednesday without any price increment. The price in auction round increases when there is demand for more spectrum blocks than the quantum put for sale.

According to sources, the premium 900MHz continued to witness bidding for the circles of Rajasthan and UP East. UP West, North East, Maharashtra and Delhi saw bidding in 800MHz band whereas UP East saw activity in 1800MHz band.

Brisk bidding was seen on Tuesday with activity requirement set at 100 percent and 6 rounds were completed."There is robust bidding going on in 900MHz and 800MHz bands," it said.

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Twitter Will Defend User Voices: CEO Costolo on Section 66A Verdict

On the day the Supreme Court quashed Information Technology Act's Section 66A as violative of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo on Tuesday said in New Delhi the platform will ensure that its users' "voices" are defended, even as it would make it harder for any "abuse" to take place.

Describing the apex court's judgement as "very exciting", Costolo, on his first visit to India, told reporters: "We have a great reputation as a company for defending and respecting our user voices. We will defend and protect our users interests across the world."

Apart from striking down Section 66A, the apex court said it found meaningless, Section 79(3)b of the act, which seeks to assign liabilities on "intermediaries" like Twitter and Facebook, for failing to remove expeditiously, while preserving the evidence of, what is considered objectionable material by the government and its agencies.

"The beauty of Twitter is that people regularly come together to show their wonderful spirit in support of causes," said Costolo.Asked about Twitter's policy for dealing with terror groups like ISIS using the platform, he said: "Accounts of terror groups like ISIS are against law and service terms."

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Telecom Minister Welcomes Section 66A Judgement, Advocates Self-Regulation

Welcoming the Supreme Court's decision to quash Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, on Tuesday, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said people in power should be tolerant and liberal towards criticism.

"We welcome this decision by the Supreme Court. The government is committed to free speech. India is a democratic country and free flow of ideas should be respected. We do not seek to curtail any right," Prasad told reporters in a press meet in New Delhi.

The minister, however, said it was important to have self-regulation as well when expressing thoughts in social media."There are lakhs of people in India indulging in social media. I am a supporter of self-regulation and would like to say it is important to have self-regulation," he said.

He said social media platforms should also practise some 'self-restraint'.

Earlier in the day, he said the government did not favour gagging dissent or honest criticism on social media.

Prasad said: "We respect communication of ideas on social media, not in favour of curtailing honest criticism, dissent on social media."Earlier, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 66A violates Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech.

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Noble Bitcoin Exchange to Use Nasdaq Technology

Noble Markets said Tuesday it is adopting Nasdaq technology for its planned Bitcoin exchange, aiming to give institutional investors a credible platform for trading the digital currency.

The startup said it would implement Nasdaq's X-stream Trading technology, already used by more than 30 smaller markets worldwide, to bring the Bitcoin trade to the Wall Street mainstream from often murky fringe exchanges. Noble hopes that the more proven, transparent and high-speed platform could revive sagging interest in Bitcoin after a year of scandals popped the initial balloon of Bitcoin fervor.

"Noble was founded on the principal of bringing credible market structure and institutional trading expertise to the digital currency marketplace," Noble founder and chief executive John Betts said in a statement.

"Our marketplace, powered by X-stream, allows us to leverage a proven and trusted venue that supports global trading worth billions of dollars reliably every day."

Noble did not give a target for when its exchange would launch.Billed as the most widely used exchange platform in the world, X-stream can handle more than 40,000 orders a second, Nasdaq says.

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YouTube Live-Streaming Platform to Relaunch With Gaming Focus: Report

Google is reportedly preparing to relaunch YouTube's live-streaming platform, YouTube Live, this time focusing on 'live gaming and e-sports'. The search giant is said to be looking at this segment based on the popularity of Twitch, which it reportedly tried to acquire last year.

According to a Daily Dot report, which cites sources within the streaming industry, YouTube has already begun recruiting a team for its renewed push into the live-streaming space, and has hired about 50 engineers with expertise in the streaming industry."Gaming and e-sports in particular are going to be a big driving force for the new-look YouTube Live," one source told Daily Dot. "There'll be huge opportunities for established streamers and organizations soon and I would say that the record numbers of e-sports viewers are only going to grow when Google start promoting and partnering with these events."

While YouTube didn't comment on the report, the Daily Dot suggests that the company will likely make an official announcement at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the annual gaming trade show which is scheduled for June 16 to June 18 this year.

YouTube had started live-streaming cricket matches back in 2010 with IPL 3 (Indian Premier League 3), but that didn't gain too much of traction. Since 2013, YouTube has also been broadcasting e-sports any exclusive deals such as the League of Legends Championship Series, but this too is said to be more popularly viewed on Twitch and even smaller rivals, such as Azubu. In early 2014, the report notes Google also removed any mention of live events from its homepage.

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Supreme Court's Section 66A Verdict a Victory for 300 Million Internet Users

The Supreme Court judgement rendering a provision of the IT Act as unconstitutional is a momentous victory for more than 300 million Net users in the country, Internet and Mobile Association of India said on Tuesday .In a landmark judgement upholding freedom of expression, the apex court today struck down a provision  in the cyber law which provides power to arrest a person for posting allegedly "offensive" content on websites.

"Internet users will be able to use online services without fear of illegal censorship or harassment, and online businesses, ranging from established international companies to small Indian startups, will be able to take advantage of a more conducive business environment," IAMAI President Subho Ray said in a statement.The Supreme Court's move to improvise another section 79(3)(b) of the act, which involves companies providing platform for publishing or transmitting message, will relieve IT companies from frivolous notices, he said.

"This landmark judgement strengthens the safe harbor provisions for Intermediaries contained in the Section 79 of the Information Technology Act. It is specially helpful to smaller companies like Mouthshut.com who will now not be harassed by the frivolous and mal-intentioned notices of the take down," Ray said.

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