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PlayStation 3 Hackers Can Unban Themselves? [Security]


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:59 p.m.
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Hackers who got into Sony's PSN service can supposedly undo the ban that jailbreaking your PS3 gets you. All they need is a console's ID of your PS3. A lot of effort to get back somewhere you're not wanted. [Destructoid via Geek via Engadget] ... More » ...

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Beep-It optical theremin for the masses makes sci-fi sound anybody's game (video)


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:56 p.m.
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We've seen theremin mod after theremin mod, but those seeking that distinct sci-fi sound without the physical labor or hefty price tag haven't had much of an outlet until now. Meet Beep-It, a $35 analog optical theremin that sports a simple on / off switch, volume control, one quarter-inch jack, and light sensitive resistor to make you the master of that otherworldly sound. According to its creator, Michael Una, the little sonic music maker started off as yet another mod -- a "single-oscillator

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Motorola Atrix root found to be signed, hacking might not be so easy


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:33 p.m.
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That the Atrix got itself rooted before it was even available made us wonder just how ... receptive it would be to the caresses of the hacker community at large. Sadly we're finding it's perhaps a bit more frigid than its friendly demeanor might have lead us to believe. User adlx.xda over at the xda-developers forums has found that the phone's system files are not encrypted, but they are signed. This will make the process of replacing them and loading custom builds and the like rather more

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Smithsonian Museum will have a video game gallery next year, wants you to vote on what's in it


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:10 p.m.
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Nobody tell Roger Ebert, but the Smithsonian Museum has announced plans for a new exhibition, called The Art of Video Games, which will run between March and September next year. Charting the 40-year (now there's a number that will make you feel old in a hurry) evolution of gaming from paddle-based pixel exchanges to sophisticated online multiplayer extravaganzas, this collection of memoirs will focus on the most visually striking and technologically innovative titles. Perhaps knowing how

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Amazon Prime Instant Video hands-on


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 2:49 p.m.
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Amazon has just turned on its Prime Instant Video service, letting paid Prime subscribers (sorry, students) in the US (sorry, foreigners) stream any of 5,000 movies and TV shows directly to their machines free of charge -- well, free beyond the $79 Primers already pay. Jeff Bezos has confirmed that there will be no extra charge going forward for this service and that Prime itself will not be getting more expensive to pay for all these bits and bytes. Right now the selection is limited,

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Autoblog drives the 2012 Fisker Karma, deems it 'best handling large premium car'


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 2:47 p.m.
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Karma, in a religious sense, is the sort of divine retribution or cause for your deeds or misdeeds. In an automotive sense it's a $95,900 plug-in luxury performance car that Fisker has been teasing since 2007. That machine is finally nearing production and Autoblog was lucky enough to take an early model for a spin around California Speedway, a brief test-drive that left the pilots concluding "the Fisker Karma is a rolling dream machine for anyone who wants something very different that works

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PlayStation hackers reportedly able to unban selves, ban others, turn tables


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 2:26 p.m.
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Just last week Sony said that those found to have hacked their PlayStation 3 consoles would have their PlayStation Network access "terminated permanently." Harsh words that, unsurprisingly, weren't too warmly received by the hacking community ... Destructoid is now reporting that not only have those tinkerers found a way to unban themselves, but that they can in turn ban any other console they want. There's apparently a catch, though, with the hackers having to know the unique ID assigned to

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Verizon announces Xoom pricing: $600 on contract, $20 per month for 1GB data


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:55 p.m.
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Verizon just filled in the rest of the Xoom pricing story -- in addition to the $800 off-contract version that's already up for pre-order at Best Buy, you'll be able to sign a two-year data contract and pick up a Xoom for $600 upfront. That's a decent savings, although you'll be getting just 1GB of 3G data for $20/month, so it's not exactly a stunning deal in the end: a Xoom and 24GB of data over two years for $1,080. On the plus side, Verizon has confirmed that the Xoom LTE upgrade will in fact

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FCC Scolds Verizon Over 10,000 Dropped 911 Calls During Blizzard [Oops]


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:52 p.m.
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A dropped call to 911 during emergency conditions? Bad. Ten thousand of them? Very bad. Verizon did just this during a recent Blizzard in Maryland, and the FCC is ticked—asking for an internal investigation. [Bloomberg via Engadget] ... More » ...

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Nomad capacitive brush turns your iPad into an art canvas for $24 (video)


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:33 p.m.
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We didn't have much luck using the oStylus as a paint brush, but even the creator confessed that it was never intended for such chores. Thankfully, the Nomad Brush was concocted specifically for those chores. What you're looking at above is a paint brush that's designed for use with capacitive screens, and it could very well spark a modern day renaissance ... or something of the sort. The brush is topped with capacitive fibers that the iPhone, Galaxy Tab and iPad (among other tablets and

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