Unveiled: Audience Powers iPhone 4′s Impressive Noise Cancellation
When we analyzed the Nexus One last January, the big news was its Audience voice processor. The Audience chip takes advantage of two microphones (if you’re counting, that’s one more than most cell...
View ArticleGroup Plans Apple Store Protests Over Tax Law
US Uncut, an organization that fights companies that try to avoid taxes, is planning to target Apple retail stores on June 4, protesting the company’s support of the Win America Campaign. The group...
View ArticleNew Malware Variant Jukes Apple’s Bug Fix
As promised, Apple on Tuesday released a security update to combat MacDefender, a type of fake antivirus malware that had targeted the Mac OS X platform over the last few weeks. On Wednesday, however,...
View ArticleMac OS X Lion to Include Browser-Only Boot
Here’s an interesting bit of news for the conspiratorially minded: Apple’s soon-to-be-released Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, will allow you to boot directly to the Safari browser, bypassing the desktop and...
View ArticleApple releases Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4 on Mac App Store
Apple on Tuesday released Final Cut Pro X, which it touted a “revolutionary new version” of the video editing software, for $299.99 on the Mac App Store, along with Motion 5 and Compressor 4 for $49.99...
View ArticleWild Berries and Herbs HD: A Field Guide to the Delicious and the Deadly
Generally speaking, there are three kinds of wild berries in the world: Berries that taste great, berries that will make you wish you were dead, and berries that will make you actually dead. Wild...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Open Source Apps You Never Heard Of – Part 2
That’s right folks, another ten best! But this time I’ll wager you’re not familiar with any of them, or at best one or two. The free/open source software world is vast and full of excellent...
View ArticleNasty Apache Denial of Service Vulnerability
A denial of service vulnerability has been found in the way the multiple overlapping ranges are handled by the Apache HTTPD server: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/175 An attack tool is...
View ArticleRoku 2 Delivers Cheap, Easy Video Streaming
The last update to Roku’s line of portable streaming video players came in 2010, right as Apple was announcing the all-new Apple TV. Roku’s tiny devices were overshadowed by Apple’s even tinier (though...
View ArticleApple Makes a Hash of Password Security (Again)
Apple has dropped a couple of monumental password security clangers with the release on OS X Lion, according to security blogger Patrick Dunstan. He discovered Apple’s developers had made user security...
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