Apple customers have a bit of good news today.
iOS 6.1, the latest operating system for the company's mobile devices, has been jailbroken.
This is the first jailbreak that will work with your iPhone 5 and iPad Mini.
Jailbroken devices are free from the shackles of Apple's "walled garden," meaning they can run software do things that are normally not allowed.
Jailbreaking is perfectly legal and it unlocks some pretty cool capabilities for your iPhone.
In this post, we attempt to identify some top 10 questions about Bitcoins to give you a clearer understanding of what it is, what it does and how you can use it to buy products or services online.
HDTV displays and HD media content are labeled with the designation 1080p and 1080i, but what exactly does that designation mean and how does it impact your purchasing and watching decisions?
It's January. You read Twitter and The Blogs and have a vague recollection of every major news outlet in the country sending some poor reporter to Las Vegas this month, every year, to stand in a convention center and talk about technology. This is CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. But it's more than just a collection of gadgets.
Tired of smiling and nodding along while your electrical engineering buddies debate the finer points of electromagnetic theory? If you're taking a critical eye to the definitive guide to batteries, you've got to understand what electricity is to begin with. Here's a crash course on the fundamental force that's driving our digital revolution.
Even though we gained an hour in the morning, awaking to a sunny sky. It will be dark before dinnertime. So why, again, do we do this?
To some degree, we may have Benjamin Franklin to thank.
If you’ve ever come across a client (or 20) who refuses to pay you what you know you’re worth, you might start to think that there’s no one out there who knows the value of good design. And you’re definitely not alone – so many designers compete on price that those who want to compete on quality often feel left out.
Unclear about how the various social media networks are used? This comic clears up any confusion… with bacon.
It’s very possible that you already know 3D printing inside and out, and are just as excited as we are by the possibilities that this technology holds for our future.
But even for those in the know, it can be helpful sometimes to step back and take a snapshot of where things are at in this dynamic, exciting and rapidly changing environment.
3D printing was once a very expensive process. (Think tens of thousands of dollars.)
But lately the technology has become cheaper and consumerized thanks to companies like MakerBot, which sells 3D printers for as little as $1,800.
So how does it work?
It's enough to make us miss the Fail Whale.
During its outage this morning, Twitter's website displayed a bizarre message showing chunks of code:
Twitter is currently down for .
We expect to be back in . For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!
It's pretty obvious that some Web-app subroutine was supposed to fill in "reason" with something like "emergency maintenance" and "deadline" with a time.
We just talked to a source close to the Yahoo board.
Here's why the board picked Google VP Marissa Mayer to be the company's new CEO...
A storm this weekend knocked out power to millions of buildings in the mid-Atlantic region. About 443,000 lost electricity in the Washington, DC area, and over 200,000 outages occurred in southern New Jersey. The utilities that serve those two markets, Pepco and Atlantic City Electric—say it might take until midnight on Friday, July 6, before everyone gets back online. July 6th? Are you kidding? Why does it take so long?
On Friday night, the internet fell victim to a thunderstorm outside of Washington D.C., taking out a chunk of Amazon's servers, which plays host to sites and services such as Instagram and Netflix. Last night, the internet died again, taking down sites such as Yelp, Reddit, and even the Gawker network. But it wasn't because of the elements. This time it was because of a leap second.
Long story short, at 12:00a Greenwich Mean Time, all of the atomic clocks across the world inserted a leap second (or in simpler terms, paused for a second) so that they could remain in unison with the rotation of the planet (this is something that has occurred 24 times since 1972). As it happens, many pieces of technology, ranging from servers, to networks, to laptops, sync up their clocks with the atomic clocks. Problem is, they don't know how to handle things when a leap second gets thrown in to the mix because they see the same second twice in a row.
Numberphile pays a visit to YouTube and learns the secret behind one of the website's famous idiosyncrasies - why view counts on new videos often freeze at 301.
If your job is watching YouTube videos, chances are you will know what makes a video popular. Kevin Allocca, trends manager at YouTube, presents the four reasons he thinks an uploaded video turns into an online phenomenon. Recorded 19 November 2011.
Facebook's stock had been in a free fall since it hit the public markets.
This morning, it's actually up, but the company isn't out of the woods just yet.
What exactly is happening here? Why was the stock still falling? And why does the IPO suddenly look like a disaster?
Some of you already know the answers to those questions. For the rest of you, we have this simple guide, which tries to the best of our ability to explain everything that's going on in clear, plain English.
The once sentence explanation of all that's gone wrong: Facebook's stock fell almost immediately after it hit the public markets because investors just didn't think it was a $100 billion company, and this has led to all sorts of other problems.
Yesterday, a group of billionaires, scientists and engineers announced what could become the most important enterprise in human history since Columbus sailed West: an asteroid mining company called Planetary Resources. They want to jump start a completely new industry between the Earth and the Moon, one that will add trillions of dollars to the world economy and ensure our prosperity for centuries to come.
Is an amazing and lofty goal. One that has the potential to change our world forever. One that is risky and hard, but which they believe can be achieved within a decade. This video offers a glimpse of how space mining will work.
Most of us don't know much about Einstein. Minutephysics has spent the past month trying to beat a little context into our pea-sized dummy brains beyond, like, E=mc2. But it's about time we got to learning the big one.
