Tricking Touch ID

Security measures were meant to be broken. Just 48 hours after the iPhone 5s hit shelves, a Germany based group called the Chaos Computer Club succeeded in fooling its super-hyped new Touch ID fingerprint–scanning security…

Square Enix gives Final Fantasy XIV the rebirth…

Rarely do game developers get a second chance after their brainchild fails to deliver and gamers everywhere run to online forums to proclaim the game’s inevitable downfall. Even more rarely do game companies attempt such…

Music streaming makes an offer none can refuse

  The record industry may finally have an effective, rational, not-obnoxious way to combat music piracy, no government restrictions necessary. Its answer lies in giving music-lovers what they want at an unbeatable price. Music streaming…

NSA secrets simplified

In the early days of June, the biggest news report flashing on screens and filling editorial columns in newspapers focused on one name: Edward Snowden. The 30-year-old government systems administrator was hidden in Hong Kong…

Smart technology creates dumb users

Computers have evolved a great deal since their text input based infancy. Graphical user interfaces, or GUIs, replaced this major annoyance, bringing about new, nice things like icons, mouse input and the desktop space. This…