Tag "Hack"

Phantom and DERP – Game server shutdowns and what has happened

December 30, 2013. On this day, League of Legends servers for North America and Europe were turned offline. Later in the day, Oceania was also turned offline. A hacking group,

More than fashion: Steampunk and ‘Maker Culture’

  My first brush with steampunk came with reading Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2000. I loved being exposed to a world that was a futuristic echo

Kinect Angry Birds Hack

A group specializing in Kinect software called KinEmote has been able to hack popular puzzle game Angry Birds.  Players use the motion camera of the Kinect to control the game

Here is what Sony Has to Say to the Hackers

Recent development indicates that the PS3 has been completely compromised on the hardware level and is now vulnerable to homebrews and pirates, but Sony has something else in mind. “We

Control Robots with Microsoft Kinect: The Beginning of Surrogates?

The Microsoft Kinect’s greatest assets comes from hackers who creates new and different ways to use the Kinect. Let’s take Taylor Veltrop for example. His Veltrobot remote telepresence ‘bot tracks

This Is What Happens When Important Features Are Taken Away

Remember the guys who broke the Wii wide open and created the Home Brew Channel on it? They are back at this year’s 27th Chaos Communication Conference claiming that they