R2B2 wants to push your phone's buttons, will guess your PIN in hours
Quick, hide your smartphone! There's a new robot on the scene that will try and guess your phone's PIN in a matter of hours.
Elizabeth Fish | 25 Jul | Read more
Quick, hide your smartphone! There's a new robot on the scene that will try and guess your phone's PIN in a matter of hours.
Elizabeth Fish | 25 Jul | Read more
If you're a gamer who plays titles that use the Steam platform from Valve, you may want to keep a close eye on your personal data.
Elizabeth Fish | 11 Nov | Read more
Do you happen to be one of those people that really love Mac OS X Lion? Or perhaps, on the other end of the spectrum, you feel Lion's a bit too much like iOS? Well, now it's more than just similar, because if you happen to have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can now make sure that Lion never leaves your side, with a bit of clever hacking.
Elizabeth Fish | 22 Sep | Read more
When typing in your sensitive information into a website, you know that pretty much every site always mask passwords. One reason for this is to stop people from snooping over your shoulder and stealing your logins. However, a security researcher has figured out a way of seeing past password masks.
Elizabeth Fish | 16 Jul | Read more
It there's one thing really irritating about leaving your iPhone out with friends, it's when they unlock to unleash all kinds of madness (usually on your Facebook) while your back's turned. You can always use a passcode, but maybe it's time to add an extra step to the "Slide to Unlock" screen, by adding facial recognition.
Elizabeth Fish | 19 May | Read more
There are now hundreds of Microsoft Kinect hacks in the hacking community right now. When you have hacks such as the Super Saiyan impersonator and the robot controller too, it didn't take too long for someone to figure out how to control a rocket launcher connected to the Kinect with just their hands.
Elizabeth Fish | 14 Apr | Read more
So, you bought a NookColor. It's a cool device, but if you've had one for a while and find that the novelty is slowly wearing off, you might be wondering what else Barnes & Noble's touchscreen e-reader can do. Wonder no more: Hackers have been hard at work, pushing the NookColor to its limits. Here are a few great things that the NookColor is capable of.
Elizabeth Fish | 24 Feb | Read more
The HTC HD Mini, also previously known as Photon, is pretty old as far as smartphones go -- the Windows Mobile 6.5 phone was first released back in February 2010. So a XDA Developer member has given the cellphone a new lease of life by bringing Android and Linux OS to it.
Elizabeth Fish | 19 Feb | Read more
Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Tab have so far waited pretty patiently for Google to upgrade the tablet from Froyo version of Android to Gingerbread. But it would seem one developer got a little too impatient waiting for the update, so got to work adding Android 2.3 themselves.
Elizabeth Fish | 05 Feb | Read more
Wherever there's a gadget, there's probably a hacker close behind trying to jailbreak it. Clear's portable WiFi and 4G iSpot is no exception.
Elizabeth Fish | 15 Dec | Read more