Articles by Richard Adhikari

Google on Wednesday announced the no-CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, a kinder, gentler way of distinguishing human Web surfers from bots. The new system requires that users confirm their humanity by checking a box to the left of the statement "I'm not a robot." A privacy statement is displayed on the right....

Iran, which for decades has locked horns with the United States, is emerging as a cyberwarfare power that's threatening the world, Cylance warned in its Operation Cleaver report, released Tuesday Cylance has been tracking one team of roughly 20 hackers called "Tarh Andishan," which means "thinkers" or "innovators" in Farsi. The group is suspected t...

Apple this week clomped into court to continue fighting a nearly 10-year-old class-action suit stemming from its use of digital rights management technology in iPods The suit originally was brought in 2005....

With considerable media fanfare, Amazon on Monday announced its deployment of 15,000 robots as part of the highly automated systems in place at all 10 of its eighth-generation fulfillfment centers across the United States The systems reportedly have cut cycle times from an hour or more to less than 15 minutes and eliminated the need for aisles. Thi...

Upwards of 1.2 million people have used pirate sites to download Brad Pitt's World War II drama Fury, scheduled for release Dec. 25, according to Variety That was one of five films hackers leaked onto the Web following an attack on Sony Pictures' network last week....

The Madness of the ITC, Part 1: The Invisalign Case The U.S. Trade International Trade Commission has broad investigative powers on matters of trade, gathering and analyzing trade data, and providing it to the White House and Congress to help formulate U.S. international trade policies....

Google has teamed up with Intel to target the corporate market with its Glass eyewear, and it will use an Intel processor in the next iteration of the device instead of the Texas Instruments dual-core 4430 OMAP it now uses, according to The Wall Street Journal The partnership makes sense, given that Glass has failed to make much headway in the cons...

The United States International Trade Commission in May issued its final ruling in what has come to be known colloquially as "the Invisalign case." Here's what happened: ClearCorrect, a company based in Pakistan, in essence had imported digital models, digital data and treatment plans to make clear plastic teeth-repositioning appliances that are si...

Amazon on Tuesday began rolling out Amazon Local Services, which lets customers purchase professional assistance for setup, installation and repair work Service providers will be covered by Amazon's guarantee. They will be licensed and insured, and they will have to pass a background check....

Bidding for wireless spectrum in the United States Federal Communications Commission's latest auction has gone through the roof, raising more than US$36 billion as of Tuesday morning A total of 70 qualified bidders are seeking 1,614 licenses in the 1695-1710 Mhz, 1755-1780 Mhz and 2155-2180 MHz bands....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week announced plans to launch a nonprofit organization -- Let's Encrypt -- in an effort to secure the entire Web Let's Encrypt, starting in summer 2015, will offer free server certificates to help websites transition from HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol....

A new version of the NotCompatible malware, which first appeared in 2012, is bigger, badder and pretty much indestructible, Lookout Security reported And it can compromise corporate networks, thanks to the BYOD trend....

Mozilla on Wednesday announced that Yahoo would replace Google as its global default search option, in a move that has set the tech media abuzz Pointing out that Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004, Mozilla painted the move as seizing the opportunity to review its competitive strategy and explore its options when the agreem...

Cybercriminals are using a new version of the dangerous Citadel Trojan, which has been employed to attack the financial and petrochemical industries, to compromise password and authentication solutions, IBM Trusteer has reported. The new version begins capturing keystrokes, or keylogging, when some processes are running....

Twitter this week began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006 "Our long-standing goal has been to let people search through every tweet ever published," said Yi Zhuang, who led the team working on the project....

Jolla, the company set up by former Nokia executives to keep the Meego operating system alive, raised more than US$841,000 on Wednesday, the first day of its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo That's 221 percent of its goal of $380,000 -- and the campaign has 21 days to go, closing Dec. 9....

Whatever happened to Google Glass? In the early days -- was it just a year ago? -- people got punched in bars, bounced from movie theaters, and pulled over in cars for wearing them, and some establishments outright banned "glassholes" from their premises Google claimed the white "Cotton" beta model sold out when it held a one-day sale of Google Gla...

Nokia on Tuesday announced the N1 Android tablet, the first offering under its own brand since Microsoft's acquisition of its mobile phone business The N1, slated for Q1 2015 release in China, will be made by Foxconn, which also will handle sales and distribution....

The United States Marshals Service is grabbing data from thousands, if not millions, of Americans' cellphones using high-tech devices deployed on five Cessnas, The Wall Street Journal reported last week The aircraft operate out of at least five metro-area airports and apparently can cover most of the U.S. population....

The United States Department of State on Sunday announced its unclassified email system has been breached, making it the fourth U.S. government organization to have fallen prey to hackers in recent months The State Department took down its website and unclassified email system and reportedly used Gmail for communications instead....