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Switch hacker Gary W. Bowser given 40-month sentence, owes Nintendo $14.5M

GeekWire

Bowser, of course, shares his surname with the American name for Bowser, the traditional antagonist of the Super Mario Bros. Team Xecuter created modification devices and specialized hardware for use with various video game consoles, for purposes of modifying and occasionally “jailbreaking” them.

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Some thoughts on this week’s Google Nexus event

CTOvision

Google has of course included NFC, but also wireless charging which is a nice touch (I have a few wireless charging pads around the house, and always wanted to be able to drop my current-gen Nexus 7 right on them). Google also updated their mobile operating system Android. Android 4.3.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. For example, there are AR apps that you interact with virtual models of everything you can imagine from the human body to the solar system. And of course you experience them like you’re really there.

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

Unsaid here, of course, is that all apps peddling digital goods of any kind must pay Apple’s 30 percent fee. Of course Apple doesn’t and can’t review every movie on Netflix or every song on Spotify. Games of the future may not need players to own powerful hardware or even to pay full price for the title itself.

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Chrome OS tablets are getting fancier but not better

The Verge

These tablet models run Google’s Chrome OS software but mimic the hardware of Microsoft’s Surface Pro or Apple’s iPad. I preferred to use headphones (wireless, of course, thanks to the lack of headphone jacks) with both, save for the occasional impromptu video call or short YouTube video. Tablet time.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Inside DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge

ForAllSecure

Where we heard about it but it was, of course, we would have heard about it immediately because it made sense. To do that, they needed a proof of concept system. So they created their own OS or operating system for the cyber Grand Challenge. Not quite operating system but almost like an operating system that it ran on.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Inside DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge

ForAllSecure

Where we heard about it but it was, of course, we would have heard about it immediately because it made sense. To do that, they needed a proof of concept system. So they created their own OS or operating system for the cyber Grand Challenge. Not quite operating system but almost like an operating system that it ran on.

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