Articles by Richard Adhikari

Just one quantum computer running artificial intelligence algorithms would be capable of connecting pretty much all the devices on the planet, Android creator Andy Rubin told an audience at the Bloomberg Technology Conference on Tuesday Rubin, who also launched Google's efforts in robotics, is now CEO of Playground, which together with Redpoint Ven...

Snapchat recently began rolling out its redesigned Discover page. It now displays images and headline previews of the content inside Discover channels and Live stories on the Stories page. It previously displayed only logos for publishers or events on those sites Publishers now can include an image and a headline to promote each day's story. Their ...

Facebook on Sunday activated its Safety Check feature for the first time in the United States, in the aftermath of the mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida, night club that left 49 people dead and scores more wounded Last year's terrorist attacks in Paris marked the first time Facebook activated the feature for a crisis other than a natural disaste...

The water- and shatter-resistant Samsung Galaxy S7 Active on Friday became available exclusively from AT&T through its website or at its brick-and-mortar stores Consumers who have eligible service can get the Galaxy S7 Active for US$26.50 monthly for 30 months on AT&T Next, or $33.13 monthly for 24 months on AT&T Next Every Year.

Yahoo has notified potential buyers that it plans to auction off about 3,000 patents and will be accepting bids until mid-June, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The intellectual property for sale includes patents for its original search technology. Yahoo has hired Black Stone IP to run the auction, according to the WSJ....

Samsung last week unveiled its Gear Fit2 fitness band and Gear IconX earbud set. The Gear Fit2 will be available for US$180 this Friday at major retailers. The IconX will hit shelves in the third quarter of this year. The Gear Fit2 has a built-in GPS and a heart rate monitor. The Gear IconX is a pair of Bluetooth earbuds that can track fitness inf...

Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of its Planner collaboration tool, which will roll out in the next few weeks to all eligible customers -- those who have Enterprise E1-E5, Business Essentials, Premium or Education subscriptions to Office 365 Planner lets users create new plans, as well as organize, assign and collaborate on ta...

Asus recently unveiled a family robot that can serve as a home healthcare assistant, control connected devices in the smart home, monitor security, perform various online tasks, and function as a playmate, among other things Asus' Zenbo made its debut at last month's Computex computer show....

Yahoo last week published the text of three National Security Letters it received from the FBI in 2013 The letters demand the names, addresses, length of service, and electronic communications transactional records -- existing transaction and activity logs and all email header information -- of the targets. However, they do not ask for any content ...

The Google Brain team on Wednesday released a tune created by machine intelligence ...

The Linux Foundation on Wednesday announced that it has taken the OpenSwitch Project under its wing OpenSwitch last year began as a joint project of Hewlett Packard Enterprises, Broadcom, VMware, Accton, Intel and Arista....

HP last week introduced several new additions to its Omen by HP gaming hardware line: 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch laptops, a desktop PC and a 32-inch Quad HD4 display The laptops will be available next month at HP's website and at Best Buy stores, with a starting price of US$900; the desktop and display will be available in August at HP online and at s...

Myspace and Tumblr this week emerged as the latest in a string of mega breaches that resulted in the theft of millions of user IDs -- not just recently but years ago "Over the period of this month, we've seen an interesting trend of data breaches," wrote security researcher Troy Hunt, operator of the Have I Been Pwned website. "Any one of these fou...

Salesforce last week announced its selection of Amazon Web Services as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. The deal is worth US$400 million "For the first time, we'll be able to deliver our core services -- including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud and more -- for our international infrastruct...

Microsoft on Monday made its Dynamics CRM Spring 2016 Wave generally available to customers The application focuses heavily on machine learning and the Internet of Things....

The 30,000 virtual reality headsetsOnePlus announced it would give away as part the unveiling of its OnePlus 3 smartphone were snapped up Monday, the day they became available OnePlus has set up a VR space called "The Loop" in which it will unveil the OnePlus 3. The Loop can be accessed only by users of the OnePlus Loop VR headsets, made byAntVR....

By the end of the year, Android devs will be able to use a trust API from Google's Project Abacus in their apps, Google ATAP Director Dan Kaufman suggested at last week's I/O conference The API, which will run in the background continually, is aimed at doing away with passwords....

Apple last week opened a flagship store in San Francisco's tony Union Square shopping district The store has a 42-foot-tall sliding glass door and a 50-foot tall green wall and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy, the company said....

Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O Built for machine learning applications, TPU has been running in Google's data centers for more than a year....

A hacker has offered to sell the account information of 117 million LinkedIn users, which was stolen in a 2012 hack, Motherboard reported last week The data includes users' email addresses and passwords....