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Motorola Atrix root found to be signed, hacking might not be so easy


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:33 p.m.
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That the Atrix got itself rooted before it was even available made us wonder just how ... receptive it would be to the caresses of the hacker community at large. Sadly we're finding it's perhaps a bit more frigid than its friendly demeanor might have lead us to believe. User adlx.xda over at the xda-developers forums has found that the phone's system files are not encrypted, but they are signed. This will make the process of replacing them and loading custom builds and the like rather more

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Autoblog drives the 2012 Fisker Karma, deems it 'best handling large premium car'


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 2:47 p.m.
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Karma, in a religious sense, is the sort of divine retribution or cause for your deeds or misdeeds. In an automotive sense it's a $95,900 plug-in luxury performance car that Fisker has been teasing since 2007. That machine is finally nearing production and Autoblog was lucky enough to take an early model for a spin around California Speedway, a brief test-drive that left the pilots concluding "the Fisker Karma is a rolling dream machine for anyone who wants something very different that works

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War of the Underworlds: A Pop-Culture Showdown


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 12:00 p.m.
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Is your Underworld Don Delillo's novel or a Kate Beckinsale film? Or is it plain old hell? Wired charts this subterranean landscape ...

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A Small Victory: Panasonic's Just Pleased 3DTVs Have Now Beaten LaserDisc [Block Quote]


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 12:00 p.m.
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That's in the US, anyway, where around 2 million LaserDisc players were sold from the late '70s. 3DTV sellers still have some catching-up to do globally though, where 16.8 million LaserDisc players were bought by format-hungry customers before its death ... More » ...

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Minecraft documentary gets a 20 minute preview, needs you to chip in for the finished product


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:13 a.m.
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Do you love Minecraft? Wait, don't answer. We know the answer. Well, we know how you feel -- and so do the folks at 2 Player Productions, the documentarians that brought you the extra-special chiptune film, Reformat the Planet ... The scrappy team of filmmakers has once again gone back to work, this time focusing their attentions on the gaming phenomenon and its creator, Markus "Notch" Persson, in a project entitled Minecraft: The Story of Mojang ... 2 Player has taken its project to the

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Playing Chicken With Wind Turbines [Video]


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:00 a.m.
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What's the point of owning an RC airplane if you're not going to do something totally irresponsible with it? Like, say, playing chicken with a few wind turbines, coming so close that you clip your antenna in the process. [Litter Box via Neatorama] ... More » ...

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Ford Focus Electric confirmed to not support fast charging, EV fragmentation looms large


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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 8:22 p.m.
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Thought that fragmentation was reserved for the mobile OS realm? Think again. With the first (and second) waves of electric vehicles dribbling out to the streets, an obvious problem is becoming even more obvious. The city of Chicago is fixing to install 73 fast-charging EV stations by the end of the year, but two of the most commonly driven ones won't be able to take advantage. Chevy's Volt and Ford's Focus Electric will only support the slower Level 2 charging, leaving those faster ones for

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Toyota decrees the plural of 'Prius' is 'Prii,' your Latin teacher looks on admonishingly


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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 4:21 p.m.
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The world faces many challenges and concerns when it comes to the future of transportation, but one of the biggest hurdles to a utopian future has finally been overcome. Toyota, using the might of its international team of engineers and wordsmiths, has finally decided what you should say when you see multiples of the company's hybrids parked together. They are to be called Prii -- not Priuses, not Priuples, not Boring Cars. Just Prii. Remember it ... Continue reading Toyota decrees the plural

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Video of BlackBerry Storm 3 Fails to Show NFC, But it Does Look Fast(er) [Video]


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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 2:46 p.m.
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Ordinarily, video of this ... "quality" would be a punishable offense, but at least it does actually show the higher-resolution screen and boost in speed the BlackBerry Storm 3 supposedly has. Sadly the purported NFC tech hasn't been confirmed yet, but if any of the rumored specs come true, we're looking at the biggest, baddest BlackBerry of all. [CrackBerry via BGR] ... More » ...

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NEC's MEDIAS N-04C is only 7.7mm thick, has Android 2.2, NFC, and no ambition to leave Japan


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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 11:35 a.m.
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It's only been three months since the last avalanche of NTT DoCoMo phones, but that's not stopping the Japanese carrier from scheming up another hardware refresh. Leaked out ahead of what's expected to be a February 24th launch, we've now laid eyes on what's likely to be the highlight device of this year's spring batch : the 7.7mm-thick NEC MEDIAS N-04C. It follows last year's N-04B in nomenclature only, what with the older model being a flip phone, and offers a spacious 4-inch touchscreen, a

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