Articles by Richard Adhikari

What's the future for Flash devs now that Adobe has turned its back on Flash Player for mobile devices and has shifted focus to HTML 5? Will Flash for the desktop survive or will it die out too?...

The international research team that found neutrinos traveling faster than light has done it again It conducted another set of experiments and again found neutrinos that exceeded the speed of light....

A team of researchers led by Tobias Schaedler of HRL Labs has developed an ultralight metallic microlattice that's 10,000 times lighter than ultralight aerogels and carbon nanotube foams Ultralight cellular materials weigh less than 10 milligrams per cubic centimeter....

On the heels of the apparent success of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, which one analyst estimates will sell more than 5 million units in three months, comes speculation that the online retail giant might come up with its own smartphone next Citigroup analysts Mark Mahaney and Kevin Chang have reportedly stated that Amazon will unleash a smartphone o...

AOL has updated its longstanding AIM instant messaging service and rolled out a preview for the public The new AIM automatically displays photos, videos and tweets even when users are writing or reading IMs....

HP on Wednesday announced its first ultrabook for the business sector, as well as new additions to its Envy and Pavilion notebook lines The ultrabook, called the "HP Folio 13," claims up to nine hours of battery life, the longest on the market....

Windows 8 will change the way Microsoft's flagship operating system will deal with updates, the company recently announced. Windows Update will consolidate all restarts released over each month to synchronize with Patch Tuesday This means users' PCs will only restart when security updates are installed and require a restart....

Something as simple and common as using an online pseudonym could technically be a violation of the law if the United States Department of Justice gets what it wants The DoJ on Tuesday asked Congress to impose harsher penalties on various types of cyberactivities, including cybercrime....

Many Facebook users have complained recently about a spam flood of a most unsavory nature Some say pornographic images and images depicting extreme violence -- sometimes both -- are showing up in their News Feeds without their consent. Others say their accounts are being used to send friends links to explicit videos and other messages....

This past week brought a plethora of cybersecurity news, with attackers going after everything from gaming platforms to advertisers' checkbooks Steam, the massive gaming site that's part of Valve, got hacked, potentially endangering its 35 million members....

Google scientists are laboring away on futuristic projects in a top-secret lab somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, The New York Times claims This lab, which is apparently so hush-hush that few Googlers even knew it existed prior to the report, is allegedly called "Google X."

It's hard to imagine how Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca could have been clearer, if a transcript of his recent remarks during an investor day conference call is accurate. He called the implementation of his company's Revue Google TV device a mistake "of a gigantic nature" that cost Logitech dearly Logitech, De Luca said, wrongly expected consumers w...

Up to 35 million gamers with accounts on Steam, the multiplayer and digital games distribution platform developed by Valve, may be at risk following a breach of its database Information in the database included usernames, passwords, data on members' game purchases, and members' email and billing addresses and encrypted credit card information, Valv...

Research In Motion's upcoming next set of smartphones, which will run its next-generation BBX operating system, will represent a departure from the company's lonstanding design aesthetics, typified by the BlackBerry Bold, according to a report in PC Magazine. However, the upcoming phones will still support BlackBerry's core enterprise email features...

Seven members of a massive alleged Internet fraud ring have been charged by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York The ring infected more than 4 million computers worldwide with malware and rerouted online searches fraudulently to websites and ads, which then paid the ring's members for those hits, according to authorities....

Nvidia on Wednesday launched the quad-core mobile Nvidia Tegra 3 processor Formerly nicknamed "Project Kal-El," the Tegra 3 has four main cores and a fifth companion core....

Adobe announced on Wednesday that it would no longer continue to develop Flash Player for mobile devices after the release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook It will instead switch to HTML5 for mobile devices....

Honda recently unveiled the latest version of its Asimo robot in Tokyo The humanoid robot has been equipped with what Honda claims is the world's first autonomous behavior control technology....

Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. federal government spends on cybersecurity, it seems that shoestring-budget attackers are still often able to get a foot in the door At a security colloquium in North Virginia on Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) told reporters it's losing ground in the battle to secur...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble expanded on its Nook line of handheld devices and unveiled the Nook Tablet on Monday The company also announced upgrades to its Nook Color, a device that was previously offered as its entry into the tablet market, and its Nook Simple Touch e-reader....