skim

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First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars (Engadget)

Mar 8th 2010 7:18AM They switched to a hand-model with small hands for the iPad.

Steorn invites us to 'get real' with fairy-powered Orbo free energy device, we invite it to do the same (video) (Engadget)

Dec 14th 2009 1:21PM So they're launching an online music service?

MIT-based team wins DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge, demonstrates power of social networks (and cold hard cash) (Engadget)

Dec 7th 2009 12:11AM @Hydra
You missed the point of the experiment. The MIT team came up with the best strategy for building a social network. They paid commissions modeled on a pyramid scheme.

Hell freezes over, the FCC admits that CableCARD is a failure (Engadget HD)

Dec 4th 2009 6:35PM @(Unverified)
The point of the hardware token is to handle the decryption of the signal in secret while preventing people from pirating cable.

Software-based security wouldn't be able to protect the decryption keys for the signal.

Cable companies don't send unique video signals to every single household - and so if the decryption keys are able to be copied, then there would be no limit to the number of TVs that can watch for free.

The reason software tokens work for browsers is that they solve a very different security problem.