Articles by Richard Adhikari

Billionaire high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced plans to build a test track, most likely in Texas, for his envisioned Hyperloop high-speed transportation system. The goal is to allow company representatives, students and others to test out Hyperloop pods, the equivalent of train carriages....

Xiaomi on Wednesday announced two new flagship smartphones in Beijing, the Mi Note and the Mi Note Pro The Mi Note has a metal frame and is protected on the front and back with 3D curved Gorilla Glass 3, which apparently makes it highly resistant to scratches and shattering....

UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who is standing for re-election, has vowed to ban personal encrypted communications apps such as Snapchat and WhatsApp if he is voted in He also will allow UK government security agencies to monitor communications, with warrants signed by the Home Secretary....

Rumors about Microsoft's new browser, code-named "Spartan," have been heating up: It will be an app; no, it will not. It will replace Internet Explorer -- no, it will not It will use Microsoft's Trident rendering engine and the Chakra JavaScript engine developed for IE 9. Probably....

Google on Wednesday released a new version of its Translate app for Android and iOS The app now lets users instantly translate text in foreign languages using their smartphone cameras....

Grocery delivery startup Instacart on Tuesday announced it has raised US$220 million, following a $44 million investment round in June of last year The company uses a fleet of personal shoppers, who are independent contractors, to purchase and deliver items to customers....

LG Electronics turned up at last week's CES with a smartwatch that apparently runs webOS LG used the watch to unlock an Audi at the show.

Google soon will update its Translate mobile app to render words spoken in popular languages into written text, according to The New York Times This feature is already available for some major languages in the Google Chrome browser....

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is widely believed to have mandated high-tech vendors build backdoors into their hardware and software. Reactions from foreign governments to the news are harming American businesses and, some contend, may result in the breakup of the Internet For example, Russia is moving to paper and typewriters in...

Activist hedge fund Starboard, which has been expressing dissatisfaction with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's strategy for some time, on Thursday sent a letter advising her to toe the line or expect to be ousted Starboard expressed concern over recent media reports that Mayer has been considering the acquisition of CNN or Scripps Network Interactive....

Companies need to understand that their employees are key to keeping customers satisfied as they increasingly focus on the customer experience this year, said Bruce Temkin, managing partner of the Temkin Group Temkin identified eight customer experience trends for 2015:...

The battle over Net neutrality has been reignited, dashing the hopes of those who thought it might be settled in February, at least in part, when the United States Federal Communication Commission is expected to make its ruling on the issue Democratic members of congress led by Sen. Patrick Leahy on Wednesday introduced the Online Competition and C...

Intel will invest US$300 million over the next five years to promote gender and racial diversity, CEO Brian Krzanich announced Tuesday at CES 2015 The company plans to have full representation at all levels in its workforce by 2020....

The world needs one open ecosystem to enable the Internet of Things, and Samsung is prepared to lead the way, said CEO BK Yoon in his Monday keynote speech at the 2015 International CES Serving up the classic depiction of IoT -- always-on, always-connected devices working together -- Yoon said the technology for linking smart radios, smart TVs, sma...

Microsoft got a fiery start to 2015 when Google last week publicized a kernel vulnerability in Windows 8.1 Update Google Project Zero's James Forshaw, who discovered the flaw, ranked it as a high-severity issue....

HP on Monday announced two tiny desktop PCs, the Pavilion Mini and the Stream Mini, to be demoed at theInternational CES being held Tuesday through Friday in Las Vegas ...

Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic, in 2012 was able to use her thoughts to flex the wrist of a new mind-controlled robotic arm in a project run by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Scheuermann earlier this year demonstrated her ability to use her thoughts to move the robot hand into different positions while controlling the wrist and ...

Hacker Jan Krissler, aka "Starbug," this weekend told attendees at the 31st Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg, Germany, that he had replicated the fingerprints of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leven using a standard photo camera and commercially available software from VeriFinger Krissler used a close-up of a photo of the minister'...

It's well known that certain second-rate media outlets use provocatively misleading headlines to attract viewers and parlay those figures into increased ad revenue, but some better known outlets appear to be resorting to clickbait as well For example, Time earlier this year published the findings of a Gallup poll with the headline "Americans Are Mo...

Researchers at the University of Twente and the Eindhoven University of Technology have come up with what they claim is an unprecedentedly secure way to authenticate credit cards, IDs, biometrics, and parties involved in quantum cryptography The method -- quantum-secure authentication of optical keys -- basically consists of sending a beam of light...