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Drop Tester for Smart Phone Protective Film

Drop Tester for Smart Phone Protective Film

By Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

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Have you seen this impressive video that shows what happens when you drop a steel ball onto a piece of Gorilla Glass 2 (used in the display of many smart phones, including the iPhone) with and without the protection of a clear polymer material called Rhino Shield? Rhino Shield was developed at  Evolutive Labs, a Cambridge […]

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Hacking the Fingerprint Scanner on the Apple iPhone 5s

Hacking the Fingerprint Scanner on the Apple iPhone 5s

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Just days after the release of the iPhone 5s last week—which comes with a fingerprint scanner built into the home button—the biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims to have successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple’s TouchID.

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Apple’s Invisible Chip: M Stands for “Magical?” – UPDATED: They Found It!

Apple’s Invisible Chip: M Stands for “Magical?” – UPDATED: They Found It!

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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It didn’t take long for iFixit to teardown Apple’s new iPhone 5s, but what they found is perhaps less interesting than what they didn’t.

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