Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone? Even the debate pitting creationism against evolution never raises the argument that ...

In context: It's never been a secret that multiplayer game development studios aren't massive fans of hackers. Both studios and cheat makers are locked in a perpetual arms race, with both sides ...

A little hacking reveals that Amazon's Kindle has faux-GPS abilities and related location-based services, a photo viewer, and a minesweeper game. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Many of us hardware-oriented types find it hard to walk past a lonely-looking discarded item of consumer electronics without thinking “If only I could lug that back to the car and take it home to play ...