Tag Archives: hardware

Prison Inmates Built PCs from e-Waste and Connected Online Using Prison Network

Can you imagine your world without the Internet?

I know it’s hard to imagine your life without the Internet, and the same was the case of two Ohio prisoners who built personal computers from parts from e-waste, hid them in the ceiling, and connected those PCs to the Internet via the prison’s network.

The incident occurred in 2015 but has now been made public by the State of Ohio’s Office of

This Tiny Computer has no Battery, Powered Wirelessly from Radio Waves

No matter how smart and fast your devices would be, the biggest issue is always with the battery technology.

Whenever you go to buy any electronic gadget — smartphone, laptop, or any wearable — the most important specification isn’t its processor speed or its camera quality but its Battery Backup, which is not getting better any time soon.

What if you could eliminate the very thing entirely

Rowhammer Hardware Exploit Poses Threat to DRAM Memory in Many Laptops, PCs

Software, from web apps, to operating systems to firmware, has been abused and exploited every which way from Sunday for decades by both researchers and attackers. Now, it is hardware’s turn in the spotlight, as researchers have published details of a new method for exploiting a problem with some DRAM memory devices that can allow […]