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Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime say hackers over DMCA changes -

An incoming end to exemptions for jailbreaking in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has prompted protests from influential gadget-hack enthusiasts, asking the Library of Congress to make permanent the right to modify devices you own. Andrew “bunnie” Huang - who wrote Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering after identifying the encryption key on the original Microsoft ...

26 January 2012, 8:44 am

Updated iOS 5.0.1 hack allows untethered jailbreaking -

An updated hack now allows owners of Apple iPad 1s, iPod Touches and pre-4S iPhones running the latest iOS 5.0.1 to jailbreak their devices untethered.

26 January 2012, 4:44 am

Open webOS announced as HP’s open source mobile OS power move -

This year the artists formerly known as Palm had quite a rough few months with HP dumping the hardware side of their own webOS mobile computing platform – their most recent move, having been announced just last month, is live today: open sourced webOS for all. While the actual main product which will be known [...]

25 January 2012, 2:35 pm

Ice Cream Sandwich gets ready for its closeup, would like to thank Kinect for big screen break (video) -

Using Microsoft hardware to augment Android? Surely, you can't be serious? Well, confounding as this may be, it is indeed true... and don't call us Shirley. All fanboy-ism and Airplane! references aside, this Kinect hack (yes, another one) manages to move Ice Cream Sandwich out of its 4.65-inch confines and onto the big screen wall. The inventive and involved mod, borne from hacker Recursive ...

24 January 2012, 8:28 pm

Arduino Hack Pulls Bedroom Curtains For You, Could Make You Lazier -

Looking for a good way to pull open those blind in the morning without needing to get out of bed? Arduino has you covered in this hack.

13 January 2012, 5:38 pm

Hardware Is "A Bitch" For Startups, But Here's How That Could Change -

From China to San Francisco, this accelerator program wants to be different.

10 January 2012, 11:35 am

Perfect Your Last Hits With Razer Naga Hex Gaming Mouse -

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Electronics Show -- Razer, the world leader in high performance gaming hardware, is taking your intense arena battling and frenzied hack and slash gaming to the next level with the Razer Naga Hex MOBA/action-RPG gaming mouse....

10 January 2012, 10:22 am

Thales and Infoblox Help Protect Internet Integrity -

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that the Thales nShield hardware security module is now integrated with the Infoblox DNS platform to enable the simple and secure deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions .

10 January 2012, 7:00 am

Does Kinect for Windows warrant a new hacker bounty? -

Microsoft says it is pursuing a hardware-only approach for the Kinect platform. But some open-source advocates are wondering if the new system will reject open-source Kinect drivers.

9 January 2012, 11:19 pm

Facebook Hacks Shipping Dock Into World-Class Server Lab -

Amir Michael works for Facebook, so it’s no surprise he’s a hacker. But he doesn’t hack software. He hacks hardware — and the occasional shipping and receiving room.

9 January 2012, 2:23 pm

Arduino hack gives a second screen to Android phones, isn't very useful (video)

Who knows why tech tinkerers do what they do. We're just happy to see those idle hands try the untested. Like this latest Arduino hack from modder Michael of Nootropic Design , who's seen fit to rig a 16 x 32 LED matrix up to an Android phone for use as a secondary display. The outputted video, downscaled via OpenCV software to an appropriate resolution and 12-bit color, is admittedly ...

25 January 2012, 8:43 am

Some of the best (and strangest) Arduino projects from around the web

Though Arduino won’t necessarily spawn the next hot-selling gadget, it does provide a toolset for homebrew developers to exercise their creativity. Arduino projects can range from incredibly useful to incredibly pointless, but they are almost always original. We’ve compiled a collection of some of the most memorable Arduino projects you’ll come across. If you have [...]

18 January 2012, 8:43 am

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