Articles by Richard Adhikari

An international group of scientists from universities in various parts of the world known as the Dark Energy Survey had a Dark Energy Camera (DECam) built in order to find out what dark energy is Dark energy has been posited to be the reason for the universe's expanding faster and faster.

Motorola and Intel on Tuesday announced the Motorola Razr i, the first smartphone from the vendor that is built around an Intel processor The Razr i, which runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, will be released in Europe and Latin America beginning in October, but there's no word as to when it might be available in the United States....

On Monday, news that Google had purchased Nik Software triggered speculation that the Internet giant was following in Facebook's footsteps Nik is the maker of the Snapseed photo editing app....

The developers of the now-notorious Flame malware used command and control (C&C) servers running the 64-bit version of Debian and the OpenVz virtualization technology in their work They wrote most of the server code in PHP, researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have found during continuing investigations into the malware....

Motorola Mobility has introduced a desktop all-in-one computer running the Android operating system. The Cloud Broadband is being launched in China in partnership with WASU Digital Group The device is being touted to Chinese consumers as a combination of an HD digital TV with live and on-demand capability, and a touchscreen tablet/PC running Androi...

Storage manufacturer HGST, a division of Western Digital on Thursday demonstrated a helium-filled hard drive enclosure This platform will let HGST design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. The company currently has five-platter drives in that form factor....

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the feasibility of using all-optical switches for possible use in computing Their research, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demoed all-optical switching in individualcadmium sulfide nanowires....

Intel announced the Intel Perceptual Computing Software Development Kit, which will let devs bring gesture interaction, facial and voice recognition, and augmented reality features to Intel Core processor-based Ultrabook systems and PCs, on Tuesday. This will be released early next quarter Intel Vice President David Perlmutter, who made the announc...

Web hosting company and self-proclaimed world's largest domain registrar GoDaddy suffered a major outage on Monday, taking down what's believed to have been millions of websites A hacker with the handle of AnonymousOwn3r claimed responsibility in a Twitter feed....

The FBI soon will begin offering client software for its nationwide facial recognition database at no charge to law enforcement agencies in the United States This is the fourth element in its seven-increment Next Generation Identification Program....

At a time when consumers are flocking to tablets and laptops, HP has decided to push strongly into the all-in-one (AIO) PC market. The company on Monday announced four new consumer AIO PCs: the Envy 20 and Envy 23, the SpectreONE and the HP Pavilion 20 All four are designed to work with Windows 8, and are positioned as entertainment devices....

The gang behind Operation Aurora, a coordinated attack that hit Google and tens of other large United States corporations, is alive, well and hacking away, Symantec said Over the last three years, the gang has used lots of zero-day attacks against not just defense corporations, but also the manufacturers in their targets' supply chains....

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday announced a slew of new tablets in the company's Kindle line that could give that device family new life The Kindle Fire HD dominated the announcement.

Motorola has unveiled three new devices in its Razr smartphone line, touting extended battery life and larger screen size as their main selling points All three will be available from Verizon Wireless later this year. They will come preloaded with various Google services, including the Chrome browser, Google Play, Google Maps, Voice Actions for And...

There is no off switch for the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who's widely acknowledged as the father of the Web, said in London when launching the World Wide Web Index report for 2012 The Index assesses the use, utility and impact of the Web around the world. It looked at 61 countries....

Japanese manufacturer Murata has unveiled a new monolithic ceramic capacitor that is one-quarter the size of the one mainly used in smartphones Its new capacitor has a footprint of 0.25 mm x 0.125 mm, compared to the 0.4 mm x 0.2 mm footprint of the one currently predominantly being used....

The hacktivist group Anonymous has published 1 million universally unique identifiers (UDIDs) belonging to Apple devices These were among more than 12 million UDIDs stolen from the laptop of FBI Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl, the group said....

Sony on Thursday showed off an 84-inch TV set with 4K resolution technology at the IFA consumer show in Germany The Sony set adheres to the 4K UHDTV standard, which is 3,840 by 2,160 pixels. It offers four times the number of pixels found in the 1080p HDTV standard, which measures 1,920 x 1,080....

Samsung has announced the first smartphone running Windows Phone 8, presenting the handset at the IFA consumer electronics show in Germany ...

Intel has signed up IDT to develop an integrated transmitter and receiver chipset for the former's wireless charging technology. It will use magnet resonance technology that could enable a computer to power a device wirelessly -- just set the device down near the PC, and it starts charging....