How to permanently display the Windows 10 version on the desktop

With a few strategic tweaks, keeping track of which version of Windows 10 is running on dozens of PCs is easy. https://tek.io/2FXgSCC https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

How to use ForkLift 3 to manage files using macOS

ForkLift 3 offers Mac users a compelling alternative to the macOS Finder. It's more than just a file management utility--ForkLift 3's capabilities justify an upgrade. https://tek.io/2I8dPuE https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Get ready to start evaluating Chromium-based Edge

The developer and canary versions of Microsoft's Edge browser are aimed at developers and those planning their enterprise browser strategy. But you'll need to be prepared for a browser with open access to extensions showing up on your network. https://tek.io/2WXdMW9 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Most popular programming languages: C++ knocks Python out of top three

The TIOBE Index analysis says the resurgence of C++ is due to a leap in its popularity, rather than a fall in the use of Python. https://tek.io/2FYD7rI https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

$3,000 to rent a movie? Bringing the theater home for the 1 percent

Prices for rentals are set by the participating studios, with higher fees for blockbuster-style movies like “Shazam!” and lower costs for dramas like “The Shape of Water.” http://bit.ly/2OVxnTE https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Social media companies agree to reduce takedown time to two hours

A petition seeking regulation of social media companies was filed in the court in October and the Election Commission, Facebook, Google, Twitter and YouTube responded to it. http://bit.ly/2D4w4gK https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

WhatsApp to comply with central bank regulations on storage of payment data

WhatsApp’s payment feature called WhatsApp Pay has been in a beta mode since February last year and has been restricted to only 1 million users in the country, pending regulatory approvals. http://bit.ly/2G7VawQ https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Inside Facebook’s election monitoring machinery

Facebook’s army of 40 teams across three global operation centres backed up by 30,000 content moderators are taking down one million accounts every single day. http://bit.ly/2VxxSWG https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

PhonePe eyes in-app merchants for its growth

The company is targeting 1,000 apps by the end of this year. http://bit.ly/2FY3KNv https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

The tiny deals behind Mukesh Ambani's bid to take on Amazon

Asia's richest man is sharpening his focus on e-commerce with a string of tiny acquisitions and stake purchases. http://bit.ly/2I4DKn5 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Pinterest seeks $15-$17 per share in IPO, below last private valuation

At the upper end of its target range, Pinterest could have a market valuation of about $11.30 billion and could raise $1.3 billion in net proceeds http://bit.ly/2I8oy8n https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Facebook is removing 1M abusive accounts a day as it gears up for Indian elections: Ajit Mohan

He said Facebook and its family of apps are making sure the elections are fair and free from interference, both foreign and domestic. http://bit.ly/2VubNs3 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Why two wheels are better than four in India’s electric vehicle push

EVs represent a tiny share of the nation’s auto market, but efforts to electrify scooters and rickshaws may begin to change that. http://bit.ly/2v1gSMZ https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Twitter aims to combat spammers by limiting daily follows to 400

<p>The popular micro-blogging platform Twitter has its fair share of problems when it comes to fake accounts and spammers. To clean up its systems, the company has taken another step that is meant to remove fake accounts or spammers from the platform. Twitter is now limiting its users to follow only 400 accounts in a day, down from 1000. Standard Twitter users might think that following even 400 accounts in a day is a bit too much, which has been iterated in replies to the announcement by Twitter Safety. However, spammers are more likely to use automated means to do so and can easily follow and unfollow 1000 accounts in a day.</p> <p>One might be thinking about how limiting the number of users one can follow in a day helps with booting fake accounts from the platform. Getting a large number of followers at once is considered a growth hack and such short cuts are mostly taken by creating bot accounts and letting them loose on the platform to automatically follow hashtags or keywords. Unaware users sometimes also follow spam accounts back, giving them much desired credibility. After a while, the spam account unfollow large groups of users at one go and the process is repeated. Limiting this number to 400 could help limit the activity of such accounts to some extent but this number could have been even lower since it’s more than the number of accounts an average person is likely to follow in 24 hours. </p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">It took me ~7 years to follow 400 people lmao</p> — Steven | ZeRoyalViking (@ZeRoyalViking) April 8, 2019 <p>Additionally, following and unfollowing users at a rapid pace is against Twitter rules and counts as spamming. The new limitation comes after the company reportedly suspended more than 70 million accounts on in May and June last year. The website’s systems are said to have identified and removed over 9.9 million potentially "spammy" or automated accounts per week during the purge. In June last year, the platform presented new policies on hateful conduct and violent extremism, and unveiled a plan to implement new technology and bring in staff to curb spam and abuse. </p> <p>Related Reads:</p> <p>Twitter suspends over 70 million fake accounts in May and June: Report</p> <p>Twitter iOS app redesigned to de-emphasise followers and following count</p> http://bit.ly/2uVBR3G

Huawei P30 Lite, P30 Pro launching in India today: Specs, expected prices and how to watch livestream

<p>Huawei will launch the P30 Pro smartphone at an event that starts at 12 pm in New Delhi today. The phone will be available on Amazon India and the e-commerce website has already has a notifications page live for the same. Those who want to purchase the Huawei P30 Pro can click on the ‘Notify Me’ button on the dedicated Amazon page to get regular updates about the phone’s availability on the platform. The Huawei P30 Pro is the part of the P30-series phones that were launched in Paris last month.</p> <p>Huawei will reveal the India price for the P30 Pro today and we are expecting the company to regularly update its social media handles. You can also follow Digit's Instagram handle to get all the updates from the Huawei P30 Pro India launch. We were also present during the launch event in Paris and you can watch the unboxing, camera samples and first look at the phone in the video embedded at the end of this article.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Huawei is also expected to launch the P30 Lite in India today. The device was launched in Canada back in March.</p> Huawei P30 Lite price and specifications <p>The Huawei P30 Lite, as the name suggests, is a cheaper variant in the P30 series. The phone features a smaller 6.15-inch full HD+ LCD display, a triple camera setup and the Kirin 710 SoC instead of the Kirin 980 on the P30 Pro. In Canada, the Huawei P30 Lite is priced at CAD429.95 (Rs 22,000 approx). It gets 6GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. In the camera department, the P30 Lite features a 24MP primary sensor, an 8MP wide-angle lens and a 2MP sensor to capture depth information. A 32MP selfie camera is housed inside a U-shaped notch on the front. The entire package is powered by a 3,340 mAh battery with support for 18W QuickCharge .</p> Huawei P30 Pro Price and Specifications: <p>The Huawei P30 Pro starts at a price of 999 euros (approx Rs 78,000) for the 128GB storage variant. The 256GB and 512GB storage variants are priced 1099 euros (approx Rs 85,600) and 1249 euros (approx Rs 97,000). Meanwhile, the Huawei P30 is priced at 799 euros (approx Rs 62,200).</p> <p>The USP of the Huawei P30 Pro is its Leica Quad-camera setup which consists of a 40MP main camera with lens having f1.6 aperture, a 20MP ultra-wide angle camera with lens having f2.2 aperture, an 8MP telephoto camera with 5X Telephoto lens (f3.4 aperture) and a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor. On the front is a 32MP front camera with AI HDR+. The phone has a 1/1.7-inch Huawei SuperSpectrum Sensor with a RYYB Bayer filter which is claimed to capture 40 percent more light and deliver well lit photos in low light conditions.</p> <p>Thanks to the periscope design, the Huawei SuperZoom Lens supports 3X optical zoom, 5X hybrid zoom and 50X times digital zoom on the P30-Series phones. A prism element in the telephoto camera bends light at a right angle and sends it to a cluster of lenses to achieve variant focal length. The P30 Pro camera has scored 112 points, highest ever on DXOMark smartphone camera rating. Huawei says that the camera can capture videos in 4K quality at 60fps.</p> <p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NfxwablloIw" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p>The Huawei P30 Pro sports a 6.47-inch Full HD+ Curved OLED display (DCI-P3 HDR) with a 2340x1080 pixels resolution, and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. The phone features Acoustic Display Technology, which is basically an in-screen maglev speaker for earpiece audio. The phone runs EMUI 9.1 baked on top of Android 9 Pie. Under the hood, the P30 Pro have 7nm Kirin 980 processors with a Dual-NPU and users can choose from three variants: 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and 8GB RAM and 512GB storage.</p> <p>The phone comes with a graphene film cooling system to manage the device temperature. The Huawei P30 Pro comes with an in-display optical fingerprint sensor and the company claims that this sensor is 30 percent faster than the previous generation. The handset draws power from a 4,200mAh pack, ships with reverse wireless charging feature, and supports 40W fast charging and 15W wireless charging. The Huawei P30 Pro has an IP68 rating.</p> <p>Related Read:</p> <p>Huawei P30 Pro Camera Samples and First Impressions</p> http://bit.ly/2OXL1Wp