The race for 5G, and a promise to keep it cheap

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Facebook rating your trustworthiness, Tinder’s college

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While Thousands Are Denied Jobs, 29-Year-Old Creates Portal For Transgenders To Provide Them Work

In April 2014, in a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court of India allotted the ‘third gender’ status to transgenders. The judgement was aimed at providing employment opportunities to the socially backward community and also help them in getting admissions in educational institutes. However, even after SC’s order, there is little respite for members of the community. The Indian mentality still …

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To Help Them Find Love, IIM Has Launched A Marriage Portal Exclusively For HIV-Positive People

It’s Cupid for people with HIV. A website, launched at IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) by Surat-based organizations Sri Rama Krishna (SRK) Group and Gujarat Sate Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GSNP+), will connect persons with HIV/AIDS across the globe. An initiative of GSNP, the website has financial support from SRK Knowledge Foundation and technical support from IIM-A. IIM-A director Errol D’Souza …

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Facebook is reportedly rating your trustworthiness

Facebook is reportedly rating users’ trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. The social network developed the ratings system in an effort to fight fake news on its platform, Tessa Lyons, the product manager in charge of fighting misinformation at Facebook, said in an interview published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Facebook relies on users flagging problematic content, but …

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Ads are coming to your Fortnite, Overwatch streams on Twitch Prime

Twitch is letting the ads flood in, even if you paid to keep them out. Twitch Prime, a service the streaming video site offers in partnership with its parent company Amazon, will no longer be ad-free for new members starting Sept. 14. Current monthly subscribers will get ad-free viewing until Oct. 15. This comes as Twitch — which lets gamers record …

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Google wants you to start exercising more (The 3:59, Ep. 446)

On this podcast, we talk about: Google Fit adds new features, called Move Minutes and Heart Points. Microsoft shuts down several fake websites, including two that mimicked American conservative groups. A look at the Oppo Find X phone, with its pop-up camera and nearly bezel-less display. Now playing: Watch this: Google wants you to start exercising more (The 3:59,… 4:59 The …

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Elon Musk’s Instagram account has vanished

What is happening in the mind of Elon Musk? It’s one of the great questions of our time, and now we have one less portal into the entrepreneur’s head space — his Instagram account appears to have gone up in a puff of smoke. It’s not clear when exactly Musk’s account was last active, but internet archive the Wayback Machine …

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Netflix tests ways of owing Apple less money by skirting iTunes

Netflix is testing a way to get around the fees it must pay Apple when people sign up and pay for subscriptions through iTunes The streaming-video giant is telling new or lapsed customers in markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia that iTunes payments are unavailable and is redirecting them to subscribe via a mobile version of Netflix’s own site, according to …

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TPG and Vodafone in talks to merge

Australia’s telco market could soon get just a little bit smaller.  TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia have confirmed Wednesday they are in “exploratory discussions” to merge. TPG confirmed the news with an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange this morning, noting there is “no certainty that any transaction will eventuate or what the terms of a transaction would be.” Neither …

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Insta360 Pro 2 adds 8K 3D video and HDR capabilities

If you want to shoot super-high quality virtual-reality video or images, Insta360’s new Pro 2 could be just the thing. Loaded with six cameras that can take 8K 360-degree 3D videos and 12K photos, the Insta360 Pro 2 is meant for professional videographers and has a $5,000 price tag to boot. It also shoots high dynamic range videos, which alongside …

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Parallels Desktop 14 saves storage space on virtual machines

If you like using Windows on your Mac, then Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac may fit your needs. The updated software, released Tuesday, lets you run Microsoft Windows as a virtual machine on your Macbook or Mac and sports features that lets you seamlessly copy and paste information back and forth between Windows and MacOS. Parallels said the 14th version comes with …

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WhatsApp promises to battle ‘sinister’ false messages in India

WhatsApp told India’s government on Tuesday it’s developing tools to crack down on rumors and false messages plaguing users of the app. Chris Daniels, CEO of the Facebook-owned messaging service, promised IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that it would figure out a solution, according to Reuters. The minister said he asked WhatsApp to develop a method of tracing the origin …

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