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iPad3 can only display 1.5 megapixel images in Safari->

Submitted by GhostX9
GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware just published their iPad 3 review and they show that when using Safari loading up any JPEG image results in a downscaled image. That 80 megapixel image from the Phase One IQ180 is brought down to a 1.25 megapixel image (1291 x 970) and even a 12 megapixel image from a Canon DSLR gets downsampled to 0.76 megapixels (1068 x 712), less than the resolution of the original iPad!"
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Intel

Intel to overtake Qualcomm in 3 years->

Submitted by GhostX9
GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware has an editorial that claims Intel is going to overtake Qualcomm in mobile despite the fact that Qualcomm had >$4B in sales last quarter and Intel has zero shipping smartphones. This contradicts the predictions made by most analysts. To support their argument, Tom's Hardware brings in a high level of expertise. Instead of focusing on "company resources" they focus on "human talent." They discuss Qualcomm's gamble on Globalfoundaries gate-first high-k/metal gate process which put them at a disadvantage to other ARM manufacturers like NVIDIA and Apple and discuss Qualcomm's loss of several key members from the GPU team in Finland last year, something that no analyst or other journalist has ever been reported before."
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Crime

Village Defense reinvents Neighborhood Watch with -> 1

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes "If you've ever picked up a Neighborhood Watch newsletter and been astonished by the amount of crime in your community, you might be very interested in a new social software start-up named Village Defense. The software links neighbors to form a real-time communication system — one phone call notifies all neighbors (by text or phone) when a crime or suspicious activity is in progress. In the first pilot study of the new system, the increased awareness, greater availability of witnesses and shorter response times facilitated by Village Defense saw crime rates drop 58% in the first year."
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HP

Does HP's PC Business Affect Enthusiasts?->

Submitted by GhostX9
GhostX9 writes "Will the changes to HP's PC business affect gamers? Industry veterans, Chris Angelini and Alan Dang, debate this issue at Tom's Hardware with a combined 30 years of experience. It's a good read from two guys who have been writing about technology since the mid 90's."
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Security

Living In An Unsecured World->

Submitted by GhostX9
GhostX9 writes "Charlie Miller, Accuvant Principal Research Consultant, and keynote speaker at the recent NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s upcoming 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict, speaks with Alan Dang of Tom's Hardware about living in an unsecured world. In it, he goes over his recent MacBook battery exploit and the challenges of computing security in the upcoming future."
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Man vs. Machine-> Screenshot-sm

Submitted by GhostX9
GhostX9 writes "A video of a surgeon using a $2M surgical robot to make a tiny paper airplane has been making its way around the blog-o-sphere. The demonstration is impressive until you see this video response which replicates the experience with an iPhone and a pair of disposable forceps. The surgeon in the second video happens to be a gamer/journalist whose technology and computer security articles have been featured on Slashdot in the past."
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Comment: Re:Not sure if this patent is still applicable (Score 1) 101

by GhostX9 (#35625016) Attached to: US ITC May Reverse Judge's Ruling In Kodak vs. Apple
If you read the patent instead of skimming it, they talk about how the processors can be integrated into a single integrated circuit. The trick behind patent lawsuits is to wait long enough so that the infringing companies owe you a lot of money, but not so long that you lose your ability to successfully win the lawsuit.

Comment: Explanation of the patent (Score 1) 101

by GhostX9 (#35625002) Attached to: US ITC May Reverse Judge's Ruling In Kodak vs. Apple
Kodak hasn't patented the idea of a video preview for a still camera. They patented the idea of taking limited information for the sensor (i.e. skipping pixels) in a specific way to provide a faster, low-quality video preview instead of previewing the data off the entire sensor. Additionally, they talk about taking the data off the sensor in a specific way so that the pixels still maintain the Bayer-filter. When Kodak sold off their OLED technology, I thought they were screwed. With this patent, they may actually have a case...
Security

The iPhone SMS Hack Explained 94

Posted by timothy
from the en-percent dept.
GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware just interviewed Charlie Miller, the man behind the iPhone remote exploit hack and winner of Pwn2Own 2009. He explains the (now patched) bug in the iPhone which allowed him to remotely exploit the iPhone in detail, explaining how the string concatenation code was flawed. The most surprising thing was that the bug could be traced back to several previous generations of the iPhone OS (he stopped testing at version 2.2). He also talks about the failures of other devices, such as crashing HTC's Touch by sending a SMS with '%n' in the text."
Security

The iPhone SMS Hack Explained

Submitted by GhostX9
GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware just interviewed Charlie Miller, the man behind the iPhone remote exploit hack and winner of Pwn2Own 2009. He explains the (now patched) bug in the iPhone which allowed him to remotely exploit the iPhone in detail, explaining how the string concatenation code was flawed. The most surprising thing was that the bug could be traced back to several previous generation of iPhone OS's (he stopped testing at version 2.2). He also talks about the failures of other devices such as crashing HTC's Touch by sending a SMS with "%n" in the text."

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.