Articles by Richard Adhikari

Jeroen de Vries, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a prototype storage system that might last for up to 1 million years This might be needed if the planet were devastated by a natural disaster, or as a reference for future intelligent life on Earth -- or for visiting aliens....

Nokia on Tuesday announced a slew of new products, including its first Windows tablet, the Lumia 2520 ...

Yahoo on Monday announced the hire of New York Times tech columnist David Pogue to lead "a major expansion of consumer tech coverage." He will publish columns, blog posts, video stories and more, starting later this year, the company said....

Apple's iMessage instant messenger service, which has made headlines for being uncrackable by law enforcement, is not so secure after all, according to Quarkslab An internal document from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration published by CNET in April stated that it was impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices....

Facebook on Thursday made two seemingly contradictory changes to its settings for teen users. On one hand, it narrowed the audience that can see teens' posts by default; at the same time, however, it made it possible for the first time for teens to open up their posts to the public at large Until now, the default audience for posts made by kids age...

Microsoft on Thursday began rolling out Windows 8.1 worldwide over the Internet Win 8.1 will be available Friday both preinstalled on new devices and on DVDs at retail locations worldwide....

Oracle has released a whopper of a critical patch update for October, with 127 security fixes across several of the company's products Of these, 51 are fixes for Java SE, and all but one of those will allow remote exploitation of a computer without authentication....

Close to a third of all websites use Linux, according to W3Techs, and Linux system users are arguably second only to Mac users in their devotion to their platform of choice, yet Linux gamers have traditionally been the red-headed stepchildren of the gaming community Xbox 360 was the top-selling console for the 32nd straight month in August, NPD's v...

The latest revelations by former United States intelligence contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency is spying on Americans, despite repeated statements by the agency and presidential assurances that it does not do so The agency reportedly is collecting hundreds of millions of electronic address books and contact lists from peop...

HTC on Monday announced the HTC One Max, a supersized version of its flagship HTC One Android device It sports a 5.9-inch full HD 1080p touchscreen, a fingerprint-scan feature, and an upgrade to HTC's Sense skin -- Sense 5.5 -- among other things....

Microsoft on Monday announced its third update to Windows Phone 8 It will support bigger, higher-resolution screens, paving the way for WinPho 8 devices with 5- and 6-inch 1080p HD touchscreens that will have six Live Tiles across instead of four....

The Internet is actualizing the vision of a global village today. Cars are becoming infotainment centers with online connections; printers, home appliances and even door locks are being connected to the Internet; and some cities have begun putting in hundreds of sensors to help them better manage their buildings and utilities The world is fast beco...

Google has announced changes to its Terms of Service that will take effect Nov. 13 In short, users' profile names and photos will be served up together with content such as reviews they share, ads they +1 (the Google+ counterpart to a Facebook Like), comments they post, or who and what they follow....

Aereo, the upstart TV streaming company that's giving the broadcasting industry dyspepsia, has won yet another court case against broadcasters Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton of the U.S. District Court for the district of Massachusetts ruled this week denying the motion of Hearst Stations, doing business as WCVB-TV, for a preliminary injunction against A...

Manuals from Lenovo that were leaked onto the Internet indicate that the company is working on a laptop running Android Not only were two manuals for the IdeaPad A10 discovered this week on the Web -- one dated July and the other dated August -- but Lenovo has reportedly since confirmed the upcoming product....

Disney Research has developed an algorithm that will render 3D textures and tactile features on a touchscreen, it announced earlier this week, enabling users to "feel" the on-screen images they touch and see The technology works on still images as well as streaming videos, and it achieves its effect by altering the friction the user's fingers encou...

Microsoft on Tuesday forked out what might be the biggest payment to a bug hunter yet: US$100,000 The money went to James Forshaw, head of vulnerability research at Context Information Security, for coming up with a new exploitation technique that affects Windows 8.1 Preview....

A coalition of companies, foundations and governmental bodies has launched the Alliance for Affordable Internet Access to create the conditions for open, competitive and innovative broadband markets in developing nations The alliance "will undertake a blend of international advocacy and research, coupled with on-the-ground work," starting in three...

What appears to be a service manual from LG was leaked on the Web over the weekend, replete with details about Google's upcoming Nexus 5 smartphone The document is listed as an internal service manual for the LG-D821, and it was first published by Android Police....

Researchers at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, have demonstrated quantum entanglement between the motion of a minuscule mechanical drum and a microwave field ...