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If you're running an older version of Windows, you might suddenly find Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade already downloaded on your machine. You never requested it, so why are you getting it? The automatic download is part of Microsoft's aggressive push to get Windows 10 on as many devices as possible. Since last July, Microsoft has distributed the free upgrade on request. But starting this week, it's also pushing it out to those who haven't requested it — and who might not want it. Microsoft isn't actually installing Windows 10 automatically, but installation is just a click or two away. If you're not careful, you might suddenly find the new system on your old machine. Is this good for you? The benefits of Windows 10 Windows 10 has many improvements over its predecessors — especially Windows 8. It's much easier to use than Windows 8, and it offers more modern controls — akin to mobile devices — than Windows 7. (There is no Windows 9.) Windows 10 also...

One of the three founders of the app that can predict the next word you want to write using artificial intelligence, missed out on a whopping 25 million pounds after selling his stake for a bicycle. Chris Hill-Scott, a 29-year-old from Buckinghamshire, founded the startup called Swiftkey in 2008 with two friends, Jon Reynolds, 30, and Ben Medlock, 26, that was sold to Microsoft yesterday for 174 million pounds ($250 million). However, Chris won't see a penny because two months after the company was founded he sold all his shares - for a bike, the report said. Chris, a University of Reading graduate, tweeted yesterday that his decision eight years ago to sell stakes was "The biggest mistake I ever made" . Jon and Ben are about to become millionaires after SwiftKey , a predictive text service, was bought by Microsoft. A SwiftKey spokeswoman said Chris had "left on good terms" . "When SwiftKey was founded there were three founding members, Chris was a fr...

After making its OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 smartphone available for invite-free purchases, Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus is extending that to OnePlus X from February 5 onawards. OnePlus has previously offered the phone on invite free sale, but that was only for a limited period. Now, all the three variants of the One Plus X - Onyx Black, Champagne Gold and the limited edition Ceramic - are available on Amazon India for purchase without any invites. The OnePlus X (Onyx/Champagne) edition is available on Amazon India at Rs 16,999, while the OnePlus X (Limited Edition Ceramic) is priced at Rs 22,999. At its heart, the OnePlus X, has a Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.3 GHz quad-core CPUs. The GPU is a Qualcomm Adreno 330. The RAM is a sizeable 3 GB. The X which is the third phone in the OnePlus lineup has a few firsts to its name, when it comes to OnePlus phones. It includes built-in FM radio, dual-SIM support and a 5-inch AMOLED screen. It also includes support for expanda...

Indian IT services exports are likely to grow at a slower pace next fiscal year than in the recent past as global clients rein in technology spending, an industry lobby group said on Thursday. The cutback on routine IT services is likely to push firms including Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys to sharpen their focus on high-margin digital services, analytics and artificial intelligence to cushion the impact on earnings. India's IT and software services export revenue is likely to grow by 10-12 per cent in the fiscal year beginning on April 1 to as much as $121 billion, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) said. Exports in the current fiscal year ending March are estimated to grow 12.3 per cent to $108 billion, at the lower end of NASSCOM's projection, with digital services seen up 19 percent. "The pressure of being competitive is forcing companies to increasingly adopt digital technologies and that again presents an opportunit...

It's been 16 years since Metal Gear Solid arrived on the PC, but a fan of the series is interested in creating a modern port of the game with Unreal Engine 4 only if publisher Konami is okay with it. Alongside a bunch of people, Dublin-based 24-year-old Airam Hernandez Alvarez is hard at work on an unofficial recreation of the 1998 stealth game - called 'Shadow Moses' and has produced a trailer to gauge community interest and corporate reaction. Writing on the game's Facebook page, Hernandez said: The team behind Shadow Moses is clearly wary of how these things generally end. It'll be interesting to see how Konami reacts to this, though if the Silent Hill - P.T. debacle is anything to go by then expect the Japanese company to nip it in the bud.  Or they might look at this as a way to change their outlook. With the amount of bad press the publisher has received from the disillusioned gaming community after the abject treatment of Hideo Kojima - terming his depar...

The lack of adequate number of mobile towers was one of the reasons for deteriorating quality of mobile services, officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in Kolkata on Monday. "Lack of adequate number of mobile towers is one of the reasons for deteriorating quality of mobile services," said Agneshwar Sen, advisor for Trai. Sen said the guidelines for EMF radiations from BTS (base transceiver station) and mobile handsets in India were very stringent compared to other countries, including benchmarked standards of developed nations. Allaying fears of the public, Suresh Kumar Gupta, principal advisor for Trai, stressed that the Indian government through Trai and the telecom department has put in place and "implemented stringent emission norms that ensure no adverse effects on human health from mobile tower emissions". "Mobile tower radiations are nothing more than radio waves whose energy and frequency levels were far too low or weak...

Dell has refreshed one of its popular Windows tablets to stuff more processing power in it and upgrade the software. The company on Monday announced the launch of its latest Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 tablet, the Dell Venue 8 Pro 5855. The improvements compared to the old Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet include a full-HD display, cellular connectivity support, and Windows 10  operating system out-of-the-box. The company is currently selling its latest  Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 Series tablet from its official website, where the starting price is listed as $449 (roughly Rs. 30,300). The original  Dell Venue 8 Pro  was launched back in 2014, and has since seen several iterations. The Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 (2016) sports an 8-inch full-HD (1920x1080 pixels) display - a nice improvement over the HD (1280x800 pixels) display its predecessor shipped with. The new Dell Venue 8 Pro is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom x5-Z8500 SoC clocked at 1.44GHz (up to 2.24GHz), coupled with 4GB of R...