Hackulous, the iOS piracy community behind the jailbreak app Installous, has suddenly shut down . Along with the community site, the Hackulous repository for the jailbreak store Cydia has also disappeared, rendering all of the community’s piracy tools dead. More »
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Pirated App Community Hackulous Suddenly Shuts Its Doors
Robots are so commonplace now that we use them to entertain kids at amusement parks. But even though modern technology has given us artificial lifeforms that can walk, talk, and even fly, there’s still something utterly fascinating about pre-electronic mechanical automatons like this Vers de Soie caterpillar dating back to 1820. More »
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This 200-Year-Old Mechanical Caterpillar Does Everything But Turn Into a Butterfly
The Lost Treasures of Infocom collection is now available for iPad and iPhone, boasting 27 classic adventure games and more than 350 hours of gameplay for a mere $10. More »
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Twenty-Seven Classic Infocom Text Adventures All At Once, All For iOS
You may recall that Amazon was implicated as the weak link in the Mat Honan iCloud hack , wherein a gadget blogger had his entire online identity nuked from orbit because Amazon gave up the secondary identifying information necessary to issue a password reset over at Apple. (The last four of your credit card, incidentally.) I’m sad to say that Amazon has clearly not improved their authentication protocols in any meaningful way, but this time it’s hurting them directly. More »
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Amazon Has Another Huge Security Hole
Bookmark and Read Later apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readability are awesome ways to store and catch up on the interesting articles you find online, but if you use Google Reader, saving those articles is a multi-step process. Here’s an IFTTT recipe that will send articles to your favorite service in one keystroke. More »
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Automatically Send Starred Google Reader Articles to Pocket or Instapaper
iOS: Apps abound for quickly sharing videos from your phone, but YouTube finally has an official offering with instant sharing and some handy features. More »
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YouTube Capture Films Videos from Your iPhone, Shares Them Instantly
In the second season of the nerdiest adaptation of The Wire to date, New York City police have busted up a violent 41-member gang in Brooklyn using—you guessed it—Facebook and Twitter. Again. More »
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Major Brooklyn Gang Taken Down by Cops on Facebook and Also by Extreme Stupidity
Hewlett-Packard says it’s way ahead of Apple in the race to bring more computer assembly back to the U.S. [Read more]
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HP to Apple: Hey, we already make PCs in the U.S.
The device you’re looking at is called the Scanadu SCOUT and, basically, it’s a medical tricorder that will give you precise vital information about any human being within seconds, just on contact. I tried it myself, and knew I was looking at the beginning of a personal health revolution. Star Trek -level stuff. Except it’s coming at the end of 2013. More »
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Holy Spock! The Star Trek Medical Tricorder Is Real, And It’s Only $150
Consumer weblog “Which?” tested the most popular 7- and 10-inch tablets to compare battery life, and found quite a bit of variation. If you’re looking for a new tablet, here are some things to watch out for. More »
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Tablets Go Head-to-Head on Battery Life, iPad Comes Out On Top