Do you have mad Android hacking skills? Put them to good use and you might just earn $5,000–or more.
N2A Cards LLC, best known for transforming Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-readers into full-blown Android tablets, has thrown down the gauntlet to th…
Bounty for an HP Touchpad Android port
If you spent your weekend outside and away from the Internet, you might have missed the massive liquidation of HP TouchPads on Amazon, woot.com, WalMart, and the HP online store. Normally a $100 fully featured tablet is nothing to scoff at, but there is a catch: The HP TouchPad runs WebOS. WebOS is a fine …
‘Portal 2′ gets Kinect treatment … for science
If there was ever a first-person game I’d like to see get the Kinect treatment, “Portal 2″ is it.
‘Portal 2′ gets Kinect treatment … for science
If there was ever a first-person game I’d like to see get the Kinect treatment, “Portal 2″ is it.
Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three Years on New Hack
A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was sentenced in New York this week to three years in prison on new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000.
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Geohot Wants to be First to Root the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
Infamous hardware hacker Geohot has a bit of a history with Sony. His Playstation 3 hacking landed him in some hot water, legally. But that isn’t stopping the rebellious jailbreaker of the iPhone from venturing deeper into Sony’s product …
Paper accelerometers for pennies in the works
Cheap paper accelerometers? Put us down for a dozen to start. They’re not quite ready for mass production yet but it looks like they’re on the way. [George Whitesides] led a team to develop the new technology that uses simple manufacturing methods to produce the sensor seen above. Graphite and silver inks were screen printed …
Chrome in the Pwn2Own Contest
Google has announced that it will be sponsoring a $20,000 prize at the 2011 CanSecWest Pwn2Own Contest. $20,ooo will be given to the first person to escape Chrome’s sandbox through Google-written code in the first day. If researchers are unsuccessful on the first day, then days two and three will be opened up to non-Google-written …
