Articles by Richard Adhikari

Deep Space Industries on Tuesday announced plans to launch a robotic fleet to scour space for asteroids that can be mined. The company will send out its FireFly spacecraft in 2015 on journeys of two-to-six months DSI will work with NASA and other partners to identify targets of opportunity....

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday announced that smartphones running its Firefox OS will be available to developers in February ...

Lenovo on Thursday announced the ThinkPad X131e Chromebook for schools Aimed at the K-12 market and up, the laptop is ruggedized with a rubber bumper around the top cover and stronger corners for protection in case it is dropped. The hinges and hinge brackets have been strengthened....

Cisco on Thursday announced the Virtualization Experience Media Engine (VXME), new software that will extend its Jabber unified communications application to virtualized workspace environments ...

An entrepreneurial hacker has found an exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability in Java and has sold it to at least two buyers at US$5,000 a pop, KrebsOnSecurity reports News of the latest vulnerability follows on from a critical bug that emerged last week for which Oracle rushed out a fix over the weekend. The new zero-day exists in the patch Orac...

Leap Motion, which makes a 3D controller that can track movements smaller than the tip of a pin, on Wednesday announced that it has entered a limited exclusive agreement with Best Buy The deal will see Best Buy build endcaps in the 1,056 stores it has in the United States to display Leap's controllers, as well as devices that run them and associat...

Kaspersky Lab on Monday announced the discovery of a massive cyberespionage operation that has been active for at least five years and has infiltrated computer networks at diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organizations in Europe, North America and Central Asia The campaign, which the company has named "Red October," is still active ...

Oracle released a fix over the weekend for two serious vulnerabilitiesin Java, but this doesn't seem to have improved matters much Thevulnerabilities, which affect Web browsers using Java 7 plugins, letattackers remotely exploit target systems without needing a username orpassword....

Samsung this week displayed prototypes of its Youm line of flexible, virtually unbreakable organic light-emitting diode displays at the 2013 CES being held in Las Vegas At CES, Samsung showed off a small tablet-like device with a wraparound flexible screen. This increased the amount of screen available for content, which will be able to flow along ...

Amazon on Thursday launched AutoRip, a free service that provides MP3 digital versions of music consumers purchase from the company The service will automatically add free MP3 versions of AutoRip CDs to their Amazon Cloud Player libraries when purchased....

The visit to North Korea this week by a team led by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has stirred up controversy The U.S. State Department has criticized the move, while Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has described Richardson and Schmidt as "useful idiots"....

Iran is behind a wave of distributed denial of service attacks that hit U.S. banks in the past few weeks, according to a report in The New York Times The amount of traffic flooding American banks' sites was several times the volume Russia aimed at Estonia in a month-long online assault back in 2007, said James A. Lewis, senior fellow and director a...

Samsung has unveiled a slew of smart TVs and related technologies at the 2013 CES being held this week in Las Vegas ...

Sony Mobile Communications announced the newest model in its Xperia line, the waterproof and dustproof Xperia Z ...

Nvidia came out Monday with a handful of announcements expanding its presence in the gaming world well beyond the graphics processing units for which it's best known ...

Lenovo on Monday announced a 27-inch table PC that doubles as a monster tablet and a desktop at the 2013 CES in Las Vegas The IdeaCenter Horizon Table PC has a two-legged kickstand in the back that, when extended, props the device up for vertical use. It has a 10-point multitouch screen that's optimized for Windows 8....

After a year of study, researchers have concluded that a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara desert in 2011 is a new class of meteorite -- one that adds credence to the idea that life may have existed on the Red Planet The meteorite, Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty," is black and about the size of a baseball....

Canonical this week announced Ubuntu for smartphones, a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system aimed mainly at high-end superphones and entry-level basic smartphones Ubuntu is compatible with a typical Android Board Support Package, said Canonical, which provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu customers....

Leap Motion announced on Thursday that its touch-free 3D motion sensing and control technology will be bundled with high-end notebooks and premium all-in-one PCs high-tech vendor Asus will launch later this year The Leap Motion controller can track movements smaller than the tip of a pin with no visible lag time....

Cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease among astronauts, adding to the health risks it's already known to pose Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center's School of Medicine and Dentistry looked at the effect of high-mass particles with a high charge. These so-called "HZE particles" are the nuclei of ele...