It seems that anti-piracy technologies have just received a major coup, as the HDCP master key, which protects the majority of movie content released on Blu-ray media over the past few years, and which was leaked online earlier this week, has been confirmed by Intel itself as being the real thing. The HDCP master key (which, in fact, is nothing more than a forty times forty element matrix of fifty-six bit hexadecimal numbers that can be used for generating source keys by applying certain specific algorithms) was leaked online earlier this week, and since then, it reached just about every corner of the world. If you're not quite sure ... [read more >>] After just announcing that LG is set to use the next generation Tegra 2 platform in their Optimus smartphones by this years end, a new announcement comes from Samsung that is set to challenge NVIDIA's dual-core solution with its own Orion processor also featuring two Cortex A9 cores together with an impressive graphics chip. Samsung is set to take no prisoners as the Orion is one mean chip, packing a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores built using Samsung’s 45 nanometer low-power process technology. Each of this cores features 32KB data cache and a 32KB instruction cache while also adding a 1MB L2 cache to opti... [read more >>] As some of you will certainly remember, we've already tackled the subject of large-size (as in 100GB and 128GB) Blu-ray discs in the past, since the BDXL format, which enables such storage capacities, was finalized earlier this year. To be honest, we weren't really expecting the first BDXL discs to arrive this early to the market, but it looks like Sharp's decided that it shouldn't wait any longer and announced the release (at least on the Japanese market) of the first triple-layer Blu-ray Disc media (write-once) that conforms to the BDXL format specification, called the VR-100BR1. As the manufacturer informs us, this d... [read more >>] I love Sci-fi action flicks as much as the next person, but I'll have to admit that I really have somewhat of a sweet-spot for anything related to the Alien/Predator universes. For this reason, I'm really looking forward to the release of the next movie in the Predator series, called “Predators”, which is set to hit cinemas around the world in the immediate future. For those (presumably few) of you who haven't yet watched any of the trailers, here's a very quick heads-up. Produced by the famous film maker Robert Rodriquez, “Predators” stars Academy Award winning actor Adrien Brody in tale about a... [read more >>] We've been talking time and time again about the numerous problems displayed by Apple's latest handset, the iPhone 4. And to be perfectly honest, we sort of expected at least a couple of users to be extremely discontent with all of these issues and take some legal action. According to the Boy Genius Report, this is exactly what happened, with two people from Maryland slapping both Apple and AT&T with a very serious lawsuit. Apparently, the two plaintiffs have hired some pretty serious legal representation and the claims are pretty sever, as you'll be able to see for yourselves as follows: General Negligence (APPLE and AT&T)... [read more >>] It's always interesting to see the most important names in the tech industry go into fights in a very public manner, and that's exactly what's happening right now with Apple and... well, pretty much everyone, to be perfectly honest, since the company from Cupertino, California has sued quite a few other big names in the mobile industry regarding the alleged infringement of its patents.The last in the list is none other than HTC, makers of a wide array of handhelds and, most notably, Google's own phone, the famous Nexus One, which Apple accuses of infringing on no less than twenty of its patents. However, the Taiwanese ha... [read more >>] I bet you remember perfectly the news I wrote about the GSM code being cracked, because that, my friends, is something one cannot forget, or at least not so easy. Well, just like expected, since the GSM code was not only cracked but also made publicly available over torrent websites, the hack continues, with today's top line being, here goes, the 3G as well! I wish I were kidding you actually, but am not, so that's why I for one am really taking considerations of switching over to BlackBerry services for my private calls. What do I have so important and so secret to talk about? Other than the biggest and, need I say, profitable tr... [read more >>] Ever since Sony announced back at IFA 2009 that 3D would represent its centerpiece technology regarding home entertainment for 2010, we've been extremely curious about just how it will manage to combine it with its current flagship tech, Blu-ray. However, it seems that the consortium supporting the adoption of the Blu-ray format is ready with a solution to this problem, namely the final Blu-ray 3D specification.As the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) informs us, this specification allows every Blu-ray 3D player and movie to deliver Full HD 1080p resolution to each eye, while also being “display agnostic.” This translates into... [read more >>] Today is a sad day, my friends. AMD has capitulated and decided to settle all disputes with Intel for a bit more than 30 pieces of silver. I have to admit the agreement comes as a shock since AMD was quite on a roll and I expected them to win their legal disputes with ease. However, I guess the financial crisis has shown its ugly fangs and took quite a bite from Advanced Micro Devices' budget, enough to have them settle for a large sum of dollars in order to continue their development of new technologies.As far as any comments regarding the settlement of all antitrust and IP disputes is concerned, both companies have released the same ... [read more >>] The date is June 25, 1998 and Microsoft has just released a new operating system. The name is Windows 98. It is incredible, gives you almost complete control over every setting, you can modify anything you want from the user interface to the more advanced settings... it is just perfect! Time passes and new iterations of the Windows OS appear. Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista. However, no matter what they come up with... it just doesn't work as good as Windows 98. And just when everyone was tired of the same revamped operating system from 11 years ago, Microsoft comes up with Windows 7, the only operating system that... [read more >>] | 
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