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Tech NewsGadgetsNintendo Is Making Copyright Claims on Videos of Game & Watch Hacking
Despite its retro charms, for $50 the Nintendo Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. handheld felt like it could benefit from a few more games: an upgrade some talented hackers made possible before the device was even released. But Nintendo doesn’t like consumers messing with its hardware, and today it appears it started using copyright … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsCombining Mario Kart Live With Lego Super Mario Creates the Ultimate IRL Video Game Experience
Assuming everyone was getting tired of spending every waking hour playing video games while socially distancing at home, Nintendo released two IRL video game experiences last year that, it turns out, can be unofficially combined to create an even better real-life Mario experience. Although a little pricy ($100 for one car, plus the cost of … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsAmateur Batman Builds His Own Wrist Mounted Grappling Gun
A childhood spent obsessing over Batman’s wonderful toys eventually transitions to a disappointing adulthood where you realize those gadgets just can’t exist in real life, even with a billion-dollar budget. That hasn’t stopped many from trying, and JT from YouTube’s Built IRL has come closer than most at recreating Batman’s grappling gun. The project actually … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe World’s Smallest Portable Nintendo 64 Is Barely Larger Than a Cartridge
There’s a niche arms race among hardware hackers to create ultra compact versions of video game consoles, and YouTube’s GmanModz appears to have successfully miniaturized an entire Nintendo 64 into a portable that’s not much bigger than an N64 game cart—making it possibly the world’s smallest to date. The last time we featured one of … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesI Desperately Need This Lego Machine That Measures Presents and Perfectly Cuts Wrapping Paper to Size
As enjoyable as the holidays are, there are parts that you’re happy to be done with—like wrapping presents. It’s a process that seems overly complicated, especially when your hard work is going to just be torn to shreds, which is why I desperately want this giant Lego machine as my gift-wrapping assistant. This machine measures … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsBaby Yoda Robot Uses AI to Follow You Around Like a Creepy Toddler
If there’s one thing stores are now well stocked with, it’s Baby Yoda toys. And while you can shell out hundreds of dollars for a startlingly lifelike replica of Grogu, this DIY does what all the others can’t: automatically follow you everywhere you go like a curious 50-year-old toddler. Creator Manuel Ahumada wanted his Baby … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and SecurityComputer Memory Can Be Made to Speak in Wifi, Researcher Discovers
A new theoretical exploit called Air-Fican turn a secure, air-gapped computer into a wifi transmitter that can help a hacker exfiltrate secure data. An air-gapped computer is a computer that is completely disconnected from any network. Many air-gapped machines have every possible network feature removed, from wifi to Bluetooth, but this exploit shows that hackers … Continued
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Tech NewsNewsSuperhuman Hack Brings Real-Time 3D Ray Tracing to the SNES
With the help of an extra graphics processing chip inside the cartridge, Star Fox did the impossible by bringing 3D graphics to the 16-bit Super Nintendo. The decision to engineer the SNES’ hardware to allow for this upgrade was a clever one on Nintendo’s part, and 29 years after its debut, Ben Carter has used … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and SecurityFeds Still Trying to Determine How Screwed They Are After Massive SolarWinds Hack
A cyberattack that began by targeting an IT firm used by numerous federal government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and other high-value targets is shaping up to be a historic event. The U.S. government is still reeling after the detection of a massive foreign intrusion into federal computer systems at agencies including—at a minimum—the Department of … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsA Tiny Optical Thumb Mouse Gives This Game Controller Unrivaled Aiming Accuracy
The debate over which is the better gaming system—a console or a PC—may never be resolved, but it’s hard to argue against the benefits of gaming with a keyboard and mouse, including improved accuracy. You can have the best of both worlds, however, as this clever hack that grafts a computer mouse onto a console … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoftA Hacker Is Reportedly Selling Hundreds of C-Suite Email Credentials for Microsoft Accounts for As Little as $100
How much are a CEO’s email credentials worth? According to one hacker, anywhere between $100 and $1,500 will do, although the specific price will be set depending on the company’s size and the person’s role in it. Unfortunately, this is not a drill: There are purportedly hundreds of C-suite level email credentials being sold on … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesThe Only Thing You Have to Pump on a Gas Engine-Powered Nerf Blaster Is Fuel
Since they’re primarily designed for kids Nerf’s dart blasters, even the battery-powered ones, aren’t actually very powerful. It’s why there are entire communities of Nerf modders out there, but Peter Sripol might be the first to upgrade a Nerf blaster with an internal combustion engine. The only thing you really need to pump is gas … Continued
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Tech NewsNewsResourceful Hacker Invents an Automatic Crust-Cutting Robot So They Never Have to Grow Up
For many kids, crusts are the bane of a delicious PB&J sandwich, but they eventually grow up to embrace a bread’s chewy outer wrapping. There are some holdouts, however, such as Andrew DeGonge who continues to despise crusts so much into adulthood that they built a smart automated robot that can automatically de-crust a sandwich. … Continued
