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German Hackers Claim They Cracked iPhone Fingerprint Scanner
2013-09-23 19:05:11| TechNewsWorld
The Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple's new iPhone fingerprint scanner. The scanner is one of the distinguishing features of Apple's new iPhone 5S, which is otherwise quite similar to the iPhone 5. It was not immediately clear whether CCC's claims were true, but two prominent iPhone security experts reportedly verified them.
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Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry's BES encryption
2013-09-09 17:28:54| InfoWorld: Top News
The U.S. National Security Agency is able to read messages sent via a corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel. The purpose of this spying is economic or political, and not to counter terrorism, the magazine hints. The report, published in English on Monday, cites internal documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Are the Sex-Friendly Hybrid Mattresses All They're Cracked Up to Be?
2013-07-02 02:18:20| Furniture - Topix.net
Two months ago, Leggett & Platt unveiled the results of an independent sleep study that indicated that memory foam mattresses aren't as sexy as they appear.
HIV virus structure cracked using GPU-based simulations
2013-05-30 22:00:29| Extremetech
A new paper published this week in the journal Nature describes how researchers pieced together the entire molecular structure of the protein shell of the HIV virus using GPU-based simulations. This remarkable achievement not only paves the way for new therapeutic approaches to AIDs, but establishes GPUs as franchise players in the molecular dynamics simulation game.
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Nvidias PhysX has finally cracked realistic, real-time rendered water
2013-04-24 17:28:09| Extremetech
No matter how great a video game heroine's hair looks, or how many individual furs are articulated on an anthropomorphic Pixar character, we can still instantly tell that computer-generated graphics are just that -- generated by a computer. Aside from human eyes and mouths, one of the biggest enemies of the Uncanny Valley is computer-generated water. With PhysX's position based fluids, though, CG water flows the best we've ever seen.
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