Articles by Richard Adhikari

HP, battered by its previous forays into the tablet category, tried again Monday with its announcement of a new 7-inch Android tablet, the HP Slate 7, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona The device will be available in April for US$169....

The CERN team in Switzerland uses the Large Hadron Collider to search for the elusive Higgs-Boson. A small team of researchers led by Larry Hunter, a professor of physics at Amherst College, can top them in one aspect; they are using the entire planet as a particle detector that could open up new areas of physics Those areas could include something...

Google on Thursday announced the Chromebook Pixel, a branded touchscreen netbook with a price tag that consumers may balk at, considering the cost of rival offerings The Pixel will be available in WiFi-only and 4G LTE versions, priced at US$1,300 and $1,450, respectively. That pricing might prove to be a major problem, said Jeff Orr, senior practic...

A blazing meteor streaked across the skies of Russia on Thursday, leaving a large smoke trail in its wake before blowing up over the remote town of Chelyabinsk in the Ural mountains. More than 1,000 people reported injuries, and windows across the region were shattered by a deafening sonic boom ...

HP is reportedly working on a series of Android devices, the first of which could be a high-end tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4 processor. The move is a sensitive one for HP, which tried to crack the mobile market in 2010 by purchasing Palm for US$1.2 billion, but saw that investment go down the drain. "I don't see an obstacle for HP entering t...

Too much regulation, not enough protection, too much private sector involvement: President Obama's just-released cybersecurity executive order has sparked concern from several advocacy groups, even as controversial legislation designed to protect the nation's infrastructure made a reappearance Wednesday in Congress. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce op...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has blasted The New York Times' negative review of the company's Model S electric sedan, which claims the vehicle ran out of electricity well before it was supposed to. ...

Landsat 8, loaded with several technological advancements for better data-gathering, blasted off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using an Atlas V rocket. The latest satellite in the 41-year-old Landsat program has enhanced capabilities to record the changes happening on the planet ...

Microsoft scrapped plans for Friday night's launch of its Surface Pro tablet at the Best Buy store in New York City because of an impending blizzard meteorologists have dubbed "Nemo." "Surface Pro launch activities in NYC have been canceled due to weather," Microsoft spokesperson Dani Reese told TechNewsWorld. "Our best wishes to everyone impacted ...

The European Union on Thursday announced a strategic plan designed to prevent and respond to cyberdisruptions and attacks. The heart of the plan: a requirement that all member states and key Internet enablers -- including some U.S.-based companies -- must report attacks Web-based companies and critical infrastructure operators such as e-commerce pl...

Google ads appear to have a racial bias, according to a study conducted by a Harvard professor. Google AdSense ads relating to the word "arrest" tend to appear more often in the search results for names commonly identified with black people than for those more often associated with white people, Latanya Sweeney found. The ads hint that the subject...

Facebook, which already has a long history of skirmishes with privacy advocates, may be heading toward another fight following reports that the company is working on a mobile location-tracking app The app, set for release in mid-March, would reportedly run in the background even when other apps are running on a smartphone or when the smartphone is ...

President Obama can order a preemptive strike if there's credible evidence of a pending major cyberattack from abroad, a secret legal review has found, according to The New York Times New policies will dictate how intelligence agencies can monitor remote computer networks elsewhere for signs of potential attacks on the U.S., the newspaper said. The...

Netflix on Friday made the premiere episode of House of Cards, its in-house political drama, available free for one month to the public with no membership requirement It is also offering subscribers the entire 13 episodes of the first season at one time instead of parceling out each episode weekly....

Google appears to have taken a step toward integrating Android's Google Now notification feature into Chrome. French programmer Francis Beaufort revealed Thursday that he spotted a new notification center in the latest Windows Chromium build that includes rich templated notifications.

Microsoft this week announced the worldwide availability of Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud-based version of its flagship Office productivity software that consumers will lease instead of purchase It will include all Office applications and work across up to five devices including Windows tablets, PCs and Macs. Pricing for most consumers is US$99....

The handset maker previously known as RIM on Wednesday launched its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones: the Q10 with the familiar QWERTY keyboard, and something new for the company -- the touchscreen-based Z10 BlackBerry, as the firm is now called, will release the Z10 in the United States in March with the Q10 following in April....

The brief appearance of a spec sheet on HP's online shopping website Monday seemed to indicate the company has joined the list of Microsoft partners offering Chromebooks ...

A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over data that could help identify users who posted racist messages on the service's website, acting on a complaint filed in October by the Union of French Jewish Students The 17th Chamber of the Paris Criminal Courts also wants Twitter to make it easy for users to flag tweets deemed illegal under French l...

Google has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new or modified radio station for an experimental radio service other than broadcast. The initial base station will be deployed on Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif It appears the company intends to build a dense, hyperspeed wireless network....