iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long, long time for a jailbreak. Sure, the current versions of iOS have been opened, but unlucky kids with A6 chips, and the fancy new Apple devices they come in, have been fat out of luck. But no longer! Probably. Read More >>
Last June, Twitter hopped on the transparency train and released its first report indexing information requests, copyright takedown notices, and removal requests from governments around the globe. Now the second report is out, with its own site and some new details on what the U.S. government in particular is doing. And weirdly enough, copyright takedown requests are actually down from the past six months. Read More >>
In the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide, your friendly neighborhood cyber-vigilantes Anonymous have been lashing out. It's mostly been DDOSes and cyber-vandalism, but their most recent project is a bit more fun, and lets you play Asteroids with a Nyan Cat spaceship that blasts up sites. Read More >>
We've all broken our share of phones, and generally the only day-to-day danger they face is a three or four foot fall, or maybe the odd puddle of water. Norwegian X-Games competitor PK Hunder's phone had a bit more to deal with when he lost it in mid-air, half-way through a 720 during a practice run. Read More >>
Featured comment by josh.moulder:
"okay, did it work properly?
e.g. my Nokia survived being dropped in the bath, and worked as it did before apart from the speaker which was very ver..." More »
iOS 6.1 is out now including LTE support for more carriers, Fandango ticket purchasing through Siri in the U.S., and the ability for iTunes Match subscribers to download individual songs from iCloud. Apple is also adding improved iOS 6.1 APIs for developers, making it easier to integrate the Apple Maps database into other apps, if you want to do that for some reason. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mr Tennent:
"Not keen on WP8 don't like the tiles or list arrangement of the apps not very navigable compared to the icon grid arrangement. S3 is perhaps a little ..." More »
46 years ago yesterday, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom; first American spacewalker Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee were killed in a cabin fire during an Apollo 1 launch pad test. The first majorly-fatal accident in NASA's history, the fire was caused in part by the cabin's pure oxygen atmosphere and a number of other dangerous design flaws that were correct over the 20 month delay that followed the incident. Read More >>
Some people are out there using Vine for pretty dumb things. Thankfully, others are capturing interesting six-second snippets from their actually-interesting lives. And you can creep on all of them, one after the other, in a constant fire-hose of anonymous, random video with Vinepeek. Read More >>
Featured comment by PrinterElf:
"Either use HTML5, or remove the transparent layer stopping me activating the Flash object.
Let me know when you've made the changes." More »
Kim Dotcom is a character. Giving the finger to the government that took his site down by setting up a new one. Throwing a press conference complete with a fake FBI raid, pyrotechnics and dancers. Demolishing cheap lawn furniture. Now, thanks to helicopter problems, he's stranded in the middle of nowhere. Ever the showman, he's making something of an event of it. Read More >>
In addition to protecting itself from your pirated content with its see-no-evil encryption, Kim Dotcom's Mega service aims to stay on the law's good side by playing nicely with copyright takedown requests and keeping that super important DMCA safe harbor status. So far so good, too; it's responded to an early batch of requests with all due speed and efficiency. Read More >>
Featured comment by shadowmatt:
"From what I have read Mega Upload was actually really good at taking down DMCA / copyright requests. Its just that is was so big that is gained the at..." More »
Whenever something sketchy happens to your favorite social network's TOS, there are always folks who say they're packing up, taking their data and leaving. But backing up your social data doesn't have to be a last resort. After all, who knows what might happen to the cloud. Read More >>
Featured comment by MrMarkStephenson:
"The software will be made available for free as part of my social network anyway, so this way everyone gets to benefit.
As for beta testing, if you..." More »
Streaming video is the future. Well, it's the present, but the future too. And as resolutions increase, it's going to be a tougher and tougher proposition to pipe all that data to your screen of choice in a timely fashion. Fortunately, the new H.265 standard has been approved by the ITU and it's here to help. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jammin500:
"What do you mean by "down in the chips" are you talking about the CPU`s etc..?
TBH, i can see this being a change quite quick, with the likes of Flip..." More »
Featured comment by Sharky66:
"And while we're on topic, don't even get me started on plumbers who commit to come to your house to repair a leaky mixer tap and then don't even pitch..." More »
You probably don't have the balls to go ski jumping. If you do, congratulations; I hope you're reading this in flight. For the rest of us, this video is a great (read: less scary) way to get just the smallest slice of that action. A piece you can safely chew and swallow. Read More >>
Cars, boats, trains, planes. They're all pretty standard children's toys, and there's nothing wrong with them either. But maybe you want your offspring to get to familiar with something a little more sophisticated at that formative age. How about some nuclear power plant blocks? Read More >>
Spaceships can't pull in foriegn objects with a almost-magical tractor beam yet, but researchers have been making progress towards that goal. Scientists have now shown that tractor beams are possible, and can actually work. For microscopic objects over microscopic distances at least. Read More >>
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