Articles by Richard Adhikari

One of the nine Merlin engines of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket suffered what the company called "an anomaly" after the vessel's launch on Sunday. The "anomaly" looks a lot like one of the rocket's nine engines failing in mid-launch, as can be seen in the slow-motion video below Initial data suggest that Engine 1 lost pressure suddenly and an engine s...

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is warning American companies not to purchase equipment from Chinese manufacturers ZTE or Huawei It has published a report stating that these two major Chinese telecommunications firms could constitute a national security risk....

The first resupply mission to the International Space Station conducted by a private firm is set to launch Sunday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule made by SpaceX are scheduled to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida at 8:35 p.m. Eastern time Ahead of the launch, NASA set up a Google+ Hangout session...

The European Union on Thursday launched a massive multinational security exercise to simulate a distributed denial of service attack on online services in all participating countries A total of 25 EU countries are actively participating in the exercise and another four are observing it....

Google and the American Association of Publishers, whose members are 300 of America's largest publishers, have settled their 7-year-old legal dispute over digitizing books for Google Books The settlement will give Google access to publishers' journals and books that are in copyright, for its Google Library project....

LinkedIn took the first step toward opening up its walled garden with the introduction on Tuesday of a feature that lets members follow 150 of the most influential thought leaders on its network These super-influencers include President Obama, Mitt Romney, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, British mogul and daredevil Richard Branson, and Craigslis...

Amazon began shipping its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader on Monday, to a chorus of praise from reviewers who had been allotted a unit in advance Most of the positive remarks were about the screen, with its built-in lighting. A typical comment, published in Time, said the screen makes it the best e-reader yet....

The threat to enterprise security is increasing as the BYOD phenomenon gains ground in corporate America The amount of Android malware out there has gone through the roof, and hackers are leveraging Twitter to create command and control servers for mobile botnets, according to McAfee's Q2, 2012 threats report....

The Federal Trade Commission is working on an update of the rules governing the online collection of personal information, which have remained pretty much the same since 1998 The changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, however, are likely to do as much to invade children's privacy as to protect it....

Samsung on Thursday emailed out a teaser that sparked frenzied speculation about its being a harbinger for the launch of the company's Galaxy Note II phablet ...

The European Union has announced a strategy to boost the use of cloud computing among its members in the private and public sectors This includes establishing standards for interoperability, data portability and reversibility, the development of model contracts, government spending on cloud computing, certification, and requirements for data protec...

Battered bookseller Barnes & Noble has joined the slew of vendors releasing new tablets for the holiday season, announcing the latest additions to its Nook tablet family on Wednesday, but the content that will grace their screens is getting just as much attention The tablets are the 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch Nook HD+. The two offer ad-free content,...

A security researcher has discovered a flaw that could potentially allow hackers to force a factory reset of Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones with a single line of code Ravi Borgaonkar announced his findings at the Ekoparty security conference....

The Iranian government announced on Sunday that Gmail and Google would be filtered nationwide until further notice, and it also sent out the notice as a text message to citizens' mobile phones Google Search is accessible but isn't functioning properly, Google services which need a secure SSL connection can't be accessed, and Gmail is out of reach, ...

A company by the name of Rethink Robotics appears to be one step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of people in the robotics industry -- it has unveiled an apparently easy-to-use robot that can learn and adapt to new circumstances The robot, Baxter, has the usual oversized robot arms, but its "head" is a screen with a placid face. Think of a m...

The White House is close to completing an executive order on cybersecurity, Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano has reportedly stated This order aims to protect the United States' critical infrastructure -- our electric grid, water systems and transportation networks -- from cyberattacks....

Citing recent threats of cyberattacks, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry body set up by the financial services industry, has raised its cyberthreat level from "elevated" to "high." It points to credible intelligence indicating the potential for distributed denial of service and other cyberattacks against fi...

The latest Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, which was discovered by researcher Eric Romang, is causing quite a flap in the security community. It has caused even more excitement at Microsoft Although Redmond says few users have been affected, it has responded relatively swiftly to the problem, issuing a temporary patch for the flaw, and pr...

Smartphone maker HTC on Wednesday announced two new devices running Windows Phone 8 -- the Windows Phone 8X and 8S The devices, which feature Beats Audio and bright colors, were strongly praised by Microsoft executives, immediately sparking speculation that HTC is replacing Nokia as the provider of flagship WinPho 8 smartphones....

After months in the making, the Internet Association, a coalition of 14 companies that includes Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Salesforce.com, launched on Wednesday It proclaims itself as the unified voice of the Internet economy and is dedicated to advancing public policy solutions to strengthen and protect Internet freedom, foster ...