Code articles

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  Code isn't physical property under the definition of National Stolen Property Act, US court rules

  By Dante D'Orazio on April 11, 2012 07:36 pm + 70 comments

  In a ruling today it was decided that, under the US National Stolen Property Act (NSPA), electronic Continue reading…

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  Smartphone forensics software lets law enforcement crack your phone's PIN in minutes

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 28, 2012 04:21 pm + 41 comments

  Putting a passcode on your smartphone is certainly the prudent thing to do, but it looks like the Continue reading…

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  Colossus: how the first programmable electronic computer saved countless lives

  By Sam Byford on March 12, 2012 04:00 am + 15 comments

  Google has posted a look back at Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer. Continue reading…

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  Enyo 2.0 gets new UI widgets for cross-browser support

  By Ryan Heise on March 1, 2012 07:01 am + 9 comments

  HP snuck in just under the wire in keeping up with its Open webOS release schedule, updating Enyo to Continue reading…

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  Social network login statuses of site visitors revealed by loophole

  By Sam Byford on February 20, 2012 11:40 pm + 13 comments

  SEO analyst Tom Anthony has devised a way to work out whether or not visitors to his site are logged Continue reading…

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  Windows Phone app shown running in Windows 8 with over 90 percent of original code

  By Sam Byford on February 16, 2012 08:11 am + 48 comments

  Rick Walrond, a Windows Phone app developer, has demonstrated how he's managed to get one of his Continue reading…

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  There's no 'secret project' to port OS X to ARM, because it already exists

  By Joshua Topolsky on February 7, 2012 02:34 pm + 68 comments

  You may have seen some reports doing the rounds today that a "secret project" was initiated at Apple Continue reading…

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  Chess AI scene locked in bitter plagiarism dispute

  By Sam Byford on January 19, 2012 09:15 pm + 7 comments

  If you didn't know that there were raging battles surrounding the AI used in chess programs, you do Continue reading…

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  The Konami Code was put in because the devs couldn't beat their own game

  By Vlad Savov on January 17, 2012 04:06 am + 8 comments

  The 1980s were a simpler time in game development, so it only stands to reason that one of the most Continue reading…

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  Segment of Symantec source code stolen by hackers

  By Nathan Ingraham on January 6, 2012 07:50 pm + 30 comments

  Symantec, makers of the widely-used Norton antivirus software, revealed that hackers have stolen Continue reading…