Pranav Dixit

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Microsoft Purges 1,500 Fake Apps From the Windows Store

The cesspool that is the Windows Store available in Windows 8 is finally getting a clean up. Microsoft is getting rid of 1,500 fake apps from the Store and will refund your money if you fell for a scam. In a blog post titled “How we’re addressing misleading apps in Windows Store”, Microsoft’s Todd Brix…

The Latest Version Of Chrome Finally Fixes How Fonts Look on Windows

Judge me all you want, but when I used Windows, my browser of choice was Internet Explorer. You know why? Because text in Internet Explorer looked bloody beautiful. Unlike, you know, Chrome, where text was a blurry mess. Seriously, it was painful. Until today. Chrome’s latest update, version 37, finally adds support for DirectWrite on…

Microsoft: Your Surface Is Not Overheating. But We’ll Fix It Anyway

Microsoft says that your overheating Surface Pro 3 is actually not overheating at all, never mind that thermometer icon on the boot screen. For the last few weeks, Surface Pro 3 owners have taken to complaining on Microsoft’s support website about the device becoming too hot to handle even during light tasks. They’ve even put…

Twitch, the video game streaming service that Amazon recently bought, is allegedly being attacked by Lizard Squad, the same group that claimed responsibility for bringing down Sony’s PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s XBOX Live, Riot Games’ League of Legends and Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net over the last few days. Lizard Squad also claims to be affiliated with Middle…

This Is the World’s First 8 TB Hard Drive

Bigger is better. Seagate just shipped the world’s first 8 TB hard drives to “select customers”, a new milestone for fitting gobs of data on a single 3.5-inch platter. It’s meant for enterprise customers — you know, corporate data centers and such — to create denser storage arrays for cloud content and backups, which is…

If you’re on Verizon, your calls are about to sound clearer and work with video over the company’s network in the next few weeks. The carrier has finally announced support for Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services, dubbing the feature Advanced Calling 1.0. A few caveats: both parties must be on Verizon’s LTE network and have phones capable…

The bad news: the Start Screen isn’t going anywhere in the next version of Windows. The good news: it will be much, much better. WinBeta reports that Microsoft’s next operating system codenamed Threshold, will include an updated Modern/Metro user interface when it launches in 2015. Here’s what it will reportedly get: No more desktop on…

This Man 3D Printed an Entire Castle

A Minnesota architect has built a 3D printed castle in just under 4 months. Whether he used the world’s largest MakerBot or something else to print it is unclear. All we know is that whatever he used was capable of extruding layer upon layer of smooth concrete. Andy Rudenko wanted to 3D print a castle…

Full-Screen Ads and Pre-Roll Videos Are Coming to iOS Apps

Apple has announced two new ad formats capable of taking over the entire screen of your iPhone or iPad. The new formats will be a part of Apple’s iAd platform for iOS, which allows developers to build in ads right into their apps. Because if you’re going make bigger phones, you might as well have…

These New Glasses Could Make Augmented Reality Practical

Augmented reality is awesome, but seriously, you don’t want to wear bulky glasses that use lenses, beam splitters and reflectors that make the magic happen. A Ph.D student at UNC-Chapel Hill has developed a sleek pair of augmented reality glasses that are actually light and compact. Andrew Maimone has been working with three other researchers…

Spotify on Windows Phone is finally free, thank goodness. Windows Phone users can finally stream ad-supported music and playlists in shuffle mode. You know, just like Android and iOS users have been able to for some time now. [The Verge]

The G3 Stylus: A Lower-Spec G3, With a Stylus

The curtains are finally off the LG G3 Stylus. After sneaking the phablet into a promotional video about the G3 Beat earlier this month, LG has officially announced that the G3 Stylus will be unveiled at IFA 2014 in Berlin next month. LG is positioning the G3 Stylus head-to-head with Samsung’s Note 4, which will…

A OnePlus One Just Blew Up In Its Owner’s Rear Pocket

You can now add the OnePlus One to the list of phones that have managed to explode in their owners’ pockets at some point. In a post on the company’s forum, OnePlus One owner MiYzu writes that the phone blew up as he was riding the subway. The explosion burnt the phone’s case, put a…

Dropbox on iOS just got an update: it will now search the contents of your Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. And it now supports large, animated GIFs, just in case you’re the kind of weirdo that uses Dropbox to hoard your kitten GIFs. [9to5 Mac]

Could Virtual Reality Seem Real Enough To Kill You?

I will never, ever forget the first time I played F.E.A.R. Years later, the game’s dark corridors continue to haunt me and every time I think of Alma, that ghostly little girl, I feel slightly queasy. Still, I guess I’m thankful we didn’t have the Oculus Rift in those days. If you’ve ever worn a…

California Governor Signs Smartphone Kill Switch Into Law

It’s official: every cellphone sold in California will now have to include a remote disabling option that lets you render a stolen device unusable. More importantly, this antitheft security measure will have to come enabled by default. The “kill switch” bill, which was introduced in February by State Senator Mark Leno and sponsored by San…

Robo Brain Is Google For Robots

Till now, scientists have been teaching robots, at least the kind that are meant to help you around the house, one thing at a time: how to find your keys, pour a drink, put away dishes. But what’s a robot to do when it doesn’t know something? Go on the internet, of course! Robo Brain…

This is awful. Uber might have to shut down its services in India, its largest market outside the United States, by October 31, for not complying with the Reserve Bank of India’s two-factor authentication regulations. India is a huge market, so Uber’s obviously not going to back off so easily. But they might have to…

Looks like Whatsapp just crossed 600 million monthly active users, according to CEO and founder Jan Koum. Hot on its heels are WeChat (438 million users), Viber (100 million users) and Tango (70 million users). Whatever happened to Facebook Messenger, iMessage and Google Hangouts? No one cares. [The Next Web]