Watch A Robot Crack A Smartphone Passcode Using Brute Force
A team of engineers attending next week's Black Hat hacking conference created R2B2, the incredibly patient Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher. The 'bot punches four-digit combinations at a rate of...
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Android's Deadly Fragmentation, Visualized
Android Fragmentation by Device via OpenSignal "Fragmentation," when applied to Android, which it often is, refers to the platform's tendency to branch off in all different directions from the...
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Way Too Many Britons Creepshot Hot Strangers
Creepshot! Wikimedia Commons Here in New York, there are lots of reasons to take pictures of strangers who aren't expecting it. The crazy lady pooping on the L train platform at Union Square? The guy...
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Use These Apps To Help Inspectors Find Nuclear Warheads
Inspecting a Russian Nuclear Site Wikimedia Commons Inspecting nuclear weapons sites, while an important part of international treaties limiting a nation's number of warheads, can be expensive and...
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Kim Jong-Un Approves A (Possibly?) North Korea-Made Smartphone
Kim Jong-Un With The "Arirang" KCNA via ShanghaiistNorth Korea leader Kim Jong-Un has given his approval to the first smartphone made in the hermit country, according to the official North Korea news...
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Sony's $500 Lens Thing Clips Onto The Back Of Your Phone
Sony QX100 Stan Horaczek The combination of smartphone and camera has been sometimes awkward; we've seen cameras with phone capabilities stapled on, and we've seen phones with absurdly overpowered...
View ArticleWhat To Expect At Apple's iPhone Event Tomorrow
Apple is set to introduce, we're pretty sure, the next-generation iPhone tomorrow. Leaks involving Apple devices have increased both in volume and accuracy in recent years, so we have a pretty decent...
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The Future Of Smartphone Security
Iris for Scanning Wikimedia Commons Modern smartphones usually offer some kind of security option to let you into the phone. The iPhone has the a four-digit PIN-like passcode, Android phones have a...
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Here's What Happened At Today's Apple Event
iPhone 5S Apple Today in California, Apple introduced two new cellphones, both of which look very nice! On Apple announcement days, the internet can get very loud and aggressive with hype about these...
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BlackBerry Is More Thoroughly Dead Now
BlackBerry Z10 Dan Nosowitz Shortly after announcing the newest BlackBerry flagship phone, the Z30 (a followup to the just-ok Z10), BlackBerry released its quarterly earnings report. Things are...not...
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Why The Lego-Style 'Phonebloks' Concept Will Fall Apart
The Phonebloks concept, an idea for a block-based "modular" smartphone, is a borderline-brilliant, environmentally conscious, I-should've-thought-of-that victory of design. If you aren't familiar,...
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Motorola Moto X
Motorola Moto X Motorola You can ask your smartphones to do a lot of things—remind you to pick up the dry cleaning, check for traffic on your commute home. But with the Moto X, you don’t have to ask....
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Fairphone
Fairphone Fairphone Amsterdam-based Fairphone engineered its device to have a clean start and a long afterlife. The phone is assembled using conflict-free metals and fair labor practices, and it ships...
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A Smartphone App That Detects Radiation In A Disaster
Fake Derailed Train At Disaster City Brent Humphreys Disaster City is your one-stop for about every catastrophe you can think of. Train derailments, hurricanes, and other unfortunate happenings all...
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Why A Cholesterol-Reading Smartphone App Is Totally Not Worth It
A Cholesterol-Reading Smartphone Add-On Several researcher groups have made prototype diagnostic apps and add-ons for smartphones, like this one. The market for these is difficult, however. Cornell...
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CES 2014: Sony Goes Long On 4K, And Shows Off A New Phone
Sony At CES Colin Lecher 4K, the heir apparent to HDTV, is still expensive, and even if you can afford it, you're not going to find too much video that works with it. Sony, though, with a lot already...
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CES 2014: A Portable Battery That Can Charge A Phone...And Jump Start A Car
PowerAll Amber Williams Amidst the never-ending phone accessories at CES, this one stood out: A portable battery that can charge your phone AND jumpstart your car. The PowerAll is a rechargeable...
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The 12 Best Products From CES 2014
LG G-Flex LG We've been spending all week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest gadget and high-tech product showcase, sifting through thousands of gizmos to pick out the...
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