According to researchers, your iPhone is vulnerable to a malicious charger. You might consider being careful the next time you plug your iPhone into some unknown USB charger a stranger offers you. These researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology will show off a proof-of-concept charger at the Black Hat security conference in late July.
The researchers say that this malicious charger easily hacks the latest iPhone running the latest iOS software, regardless of whether or not the device is jailbroken. It also requires no user interaction, meaning your device could be hacked simply by plugging it into one of these hacked chargers.
Their proof-of-concept device makes use of a $45 BeagleBoard, The BeagleBoard is quite a bit bigger than a normal charger, so it might look a bit suspicious, however, the researchers note they were working on a limited budget and limited time. The researchers have contacted Apple, but they haven't heard back yet.
Computex Taipei 2013 - Tt eSports has just unveiled another new addition to its MEKA mechanical keyboard lineup. The MEKA G1 Prime Team Edition features Cherry Brown mechanical switches that are light to the touch while remaining tactile and non-clicky.
Featuring a red body with a combination of black and red keys, the somewhat compact MEKA G1 is built to target enthusiasts in the FPS and RTS gaming arenas. The keyboard is endorsed by Korea's famous SCII team, Prime Team, who is one of the world's premier StarCraft II gaming teams.
The MEKA G1 Prime Team Edition features a 1000Hz polling rate that is eight times quicker than regular gaming keyboards for a never-lagged, always-responsive gaming experience. The Cherry Brown mechanical switches provide the keyboard with a 50-million-keystroke life expectancy.
Like the other keyboards in the MEKA lineup, the G1 features a two-port USB hub as well as microphone-in and audio-out jacks for an even more enhanced gaming experience. The MEKA G1 Prime Team Edition will retail for an MSRP of $139.99 at major online retailers.
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Computex Taipei 2013 - NZXT has just unveiled two new additions to its Hale82 line of power supplies. Dubbed the Hale82 V2 550W, this new power supply features 135mm sleeve-bearing fan accompanied by a white exterior finish.
NZXT's Hale82 V2 series is 80+ Bronze-certified which operates at a high level of efficiency and is Intel Haswell compatible. This means the units are powerful and reliable enough for the most demanding gaming PC needs.
The Hale82 V2 550W incorporates 100 percent Japanese capacitors and dual eight-pin connectors designed for high-end motherboards with extreme overclocking in mind. The 550W also features a single 12-volt rail to ensure your video cards and CPU get all the power they need.
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This morning, Samsung announced a trio of Galaxy Tab 3 devices ranging from the 7-inch class, to an 8.1-inch device, all the way up to a 10.1-inch variant. The new tablets have long been expected but not much was known about any of them until now.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 features a 1280x800 display with a 1.6GHz dual-core processor. It also features 1GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of storage, and a 6800mAh battery. Photo capture is handled by a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera which is accompanied by 1.3-megapixel front camera.
The Galaxy Tab 8.0 feature the same resolution cameras and storage options, but packs half a gigabyte more RAM. Both devices are available in three different versions which include Wi-Fi only, 3G, and LTE. The 7-inch version features a 1.2GHz processor, 8GB or 16GB of internal storage, and a 1024x600 Display. All three devices run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and will be available sometime this month.
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Computex Taipei 2013 - Lian Li has just unveiled a new massive case to its PC-D lineup. The PC-D600 is the little brother to the company's PC-D800 and is designed to house E-ATX motherboards.
Featuring enough room for nine 5.25-inch optical drives, seven 3.5-inch hard drives, and an additional six 2.5-inch solid state drives, the D600 is a formidable contender and anyone needing a chassis for a small home server or just massive amounts of storage.
The chassis has room up front for two 120mm fans, while the back has support for up to three 140mm cooling fans. As for water cooling provisions, the top of the case can fit a 120mm or 180mm radiator while the left back side of the case has room for a 360mm radiator. No word has been released on when the case will be available or what MSRP pricing will be.
Computex Taipei 2013 - Fractal Design has unveiled yet another new chassis in its ARC line of PC cases. The new ARC XL brings all of the minimalistic yet elegant design queues to the full size chassis arena while still including the features that make the ARC series so wonderful.
Fractal says that the ARC XL delivers the maximum airflow possible while still maintaining the minimalistic body design. The chassis comes with three Silent Series R2 fans installed and room for many more. Also included is a built-in three-speed fan controller on the front panel for easy access.
The ARC XL was designed with the serious liquid cooling enthusiast in mind and has provisions for multiple thick style 240mm and 360mm radiators with space to spare for reservoirs and pumps. This gives consumers ample room for multiple cooling loops for maximum cooling potential.
The chassis includes several "easy clean" dust filters and a side panel window to show off your hardware. With room for up to nine PCI expansion slots, and accommodations for up to eight 3.5-inch hard drives and two 2.5-inch solid state drives, this is one serious chassis.
Computex Taipei 2013 - Fractal Design has just unveiled the latest revision in its ARC line, the ARC Mini R2. Fractal Design says that this new micro-ATX case combines superior cooling potential and build configurability in a single minimalistic yet elegant chassis design.
Three Silent Series R2 fans and accommodations for up to four more make this an excellent candidate for an air cooled system. Those fond of liquid cooling will find the ARC Mini R2 quite the canvas on which to build as well. With room for multiple thick style 240mm radiators or even a single thick 360mm radiator, the ARC Mini R2 allows you to fit as much cooling potential into a compact micro-ATX chassis as possible.
The ARC Mini R2 also features an integrated three speed fan controller, front panel USB 3.0, multiple "easy clean" dust filters and room for up to six 3.5-inch hard drives and two 2.5-inch solid state drives that are hidden behind the motherboard plate. The ARC Mini R2 will retail for $89.95 at select retail partners.
Computex Taipei 2013 - You know what? This is the kind of technology that I live for; Sapphire are back in the spotlight once again with an insane new dual-GPU card, the Sapphire Atomic HD7990 6GB.
As you can see from the product name, we have 6GB of RAM which will be announced later (probably some insanely fast gear) and two Tahiti XT2 GPU's. Sapphire's Atomic range always goes crazy, so we have six miniDisplayPort outputs for some crazy multi-monitor goodness, something that gets the blood flowing through my body. Now, none of this is possible without some power, and just how much does the Atomic HD7990 6GB require?
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Computex Taipei 2013 - EVGA has debuted a new GTX 780 Classified GPU based upon NVIDIA's latest GTX 700 series of GPUs. The GTX 780 Classified makes use of EVGA's ACX Cooling, providing up to 15 percent lower GPU and memory temperatures, 15 percent less noise, and 700 percent stronger fanblades.
The GTX 780 Classified features a 14+3 Phase Power setup, helping to provide clean power, an important aspect to have when overclocking. It gets its power from dual 8-pin power connectors, again allowing for extreme overclocking. Pricing and availability are unknown at the time of writing.
Computex Taipei 2013 - In a move that surprised no one, Seagate today announced a new ultra-thin 5mm HDD for use in slim laptops, Ultrabooks and tablet devices.
The 5mm standard will start off strong this year with large OEMs and ODMs taking advantage of the 25 percent reduction in height compared to 7mm HDDs that were all the rage just one year ago. Shown above, at the top of the pile is the new 5mm, single platter wonder. The drive sits atop 7mm and 9.5mm products.
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Over the weekend, ASRock announced that it has broken the world record by pushing a DDR3 memory module to an astounding 4095MHz. The record was broken by Nick Shih along with his friend John Lam from HKEPC using ASRock's Z87M OC Formula motherboard. The memory used to break the record was a single 4GB stick of Team Group Xtreem-LV-2666 DDR3 RAM.
ASRock's next gen OC Formula Series inherits lots of its predecessor's features, including the Power Kit, Connector Kit, Cooling Kit, and now it also surpasses its predecessor by owning the new Monitor Kit and 8 Series exclusive technologies, code named A-Style. Packed with Home Cloud, Purity Sound, HDMI-In, tons of Nick Shih's secret overclocking profiles and a whole lot more, overclockers will find the new OC Formula Series motherboards their best choice for pushing extremes.
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Computex Taipei 2013 - ROCCAT have not only unveiled their gaming orientated Power-Grid software and app, but they've just now unveiled their latest mechanical gaming keyboard with per-key illumination, the Ryos MK Pro.
ROCCAT's Ryos MK Pro features an insane number of configuration options, as well as your choice of Cherry MX key switches in four colors and per-key illumination in two modes: smart and manual. This allows Ryos MK Pro owners to congiure special effects to their keystrokes, configure their keyboard to highlight in-game and application key bindings, your modifier keys, macro sequences and cool downs, system controls and much more.
The ROCCAT Ryos MK Pro features a 32-bit ARM Cortex processor, meaning that it has its processor can power all of the functions on this keyboard, all without losing a spec of performance. There's 2MB of flash memory on-board which houses your configurations, with your keyboard keeping all of your keystrokes and macros handled well in real-time, all without delay.
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Computex Taipei 2013 - ROCCAT have unveiled something they're calling a first in the history of PC gaming with their new Power-Grid technology. Power-Grid allows you to use your smartphone to control both your games, and your computer, and is free to get you started.
ROCCAT's Power-Grid will allow you to connect, monitor and control your game and PC in real-time, with the app featuring four control displays, or "grids". There are four grids at play, with the first three preloaded with a bunch of essential gaming tools while ROCCAT have left the fourth one completely customizable. The three grids are made up of the "Incoming Center", "Stats Control", "Sound Control" while the fourth is free.
Incoming Center routes all outside voice and text communication - be it Skype, Facebook or TeamSpeak - to your smartphone for easy viewing. This way, gamers can continue to get their game on, without their PC disturbing them with updates, which they can quickly check on their smartphone.
Stats Control allows gamers to view their PC's vital data - such as CPU load, hard drive space and network traffic - all from their smartphone. The third preloaded grid is Sound Control, which lets gamers set and adjust all aspects of their gaming audio from their smartphone. Gamers can tweak audio settings in Skype to provide in-game music or with their media player together, or independently.
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Earlier today at the Computex 2013 show in Taipei, Taiwan, Western Digital announced that it has began shipping the world's thinnest 1 TB hard drive. The 2.5-inch WD Blue measures just 7 mm thick. The company says this opens up new storage solutions for the increasingly popular light-and-thin category of notebooks.
Western Digital said that their entire line of 2.5-inch WD Blue drives from the 320GB to 1TB range will now be available in the 7mm thickness. The 7mm drives feature Western Digital's Shock Tolerance, Cool and Quiet, and Stable Track technologies for an improved customer experience.
"Users with large portfolios of content no longer need an Ultrabook or upgrading to a thin and light notebook," said Matt Rutledge , Vice President and General Manager for client storage products at WD. "This most compact 1TB hard drive to-date offers manufacturers of systems an upsell path for their customers who will now be able to choose systems offering both sleek design and high capacity."
Computex Taipei 2013 - Zalman just introduced their new cases, the Z3 and Z3 Plus, and have now introduced a new 'ultimate water cooler' in the Reserator3 Max. Zalman's Reserator3 Max can handle an insane 400W, all while being 'ultra silent'.
The Reserator3 Max has dual radial radiators, which are designed to maximize the air flow structure, and maximized cooling performance with its dual-oath radiator. The Reserator3 Max comes with a 120mm fan, and features a gorgeous design which includes black pearl nickel plated for corrosion prevention. Zalman are really pushing the silent factor here, which is something important when you're cooling down a super-intensive 400W.
This morning, ROCCAT announced two new products to its gaming peripheral collection. Up first is a new mouse dubbed the Cone Pure Optical which features an adjustable 4000dpi PRO-OPTIC R3 sensor for precision control on almost any surface.
The mouse also features ROCCAT's Click Master Technology, Easy Shift[+] Button Duplicator, a 32-bit Turbo Core V2 processor as well as a 16.8-million-color lighting system. ROCCAT also unveiled the Ryos MK Pro mechanical gaming keyboard.
The keyboard features per-key illumination, advanced anti-ghosting with N-key rollover, your choice of four different Cherry MX key switches, and a 1000Hz polling rate. Also being unveiled at Computex is the company's highly anticipated Power Grid smartphone app which we will learn more about later as well.
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Computex Taipei 2013 - Zalman have just announced two new ATX Mid-Tower cases, the Z3 and Z3 Plus. The Z3 is available in black, while the Z3 Plus is available in either black or white. Both cases are made of a mix of plastic and steel.
The Zalman Z3 and Z3 Plus cases support both standard ATX and Micro-ATX motherboards, and are primed for some full-size graphic card action, supporting up to 320mm (12.5-inch) long GPU's. Both the Z3 and Z3 Plus have two 5.25-inch bays, and four 3.5-inch bays. The Z3 case includes one 120mm fan up top with a space for another, a single rear 120mm fan, and a single 120mm fan at the front.
The Z3 Plus changes it up a little, offering two 120mm fans up top (both included), the same 120mm rear fan, and the same 120mm front fan but offers it with a LED. There's a fan controller included with both cases allowing you to tweak your fan settings. Both the Z3 and Z3 Plus include a headphone jack, mic jack, two USB 2.0 ports and a single USB 3.0 port.
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We have been hearing rumors of a low-cost iPhone for almost 6 months now, and today it appears those rumors may just hold more weight than we originally thought. Images of the low-cost iPhone have surfaced on a Chinese social networking site.
If legit, the images show off a device that looks very similar to the iPhone 3G with a round very smooth plastic back. This would make a lot of sense as Apple already has the tooling, molds and most of the design on hand. All they would need to do is update the hardware which would result in massive savings that they can then pass along to the customer.
Keep in mind that rumors are just that and this new leak looks much different than the leaked shell we saw two months ago. On the contrary this new image does appear to show the device using Apple's new smaller connector so that adds some weight to the rumor. TweakTown want to know what you think about the idea of a new low-cost iPhone. Is there simply no market for such a device with so many good android phones being available at a low price? Let us know in the comments!
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Computex Taipei 2013 - Crucial have just unveiled some sexy new DDR3 memory in the form of their Ballistix Sport XT range. The Ballistix Sport XT comes in 4GB and 8GB kits, and in both 1600Mhz and 1866MHz bundles.
Crucial's new Ballistix Sport XT memory is designed for high-performance systems and features XMP profile for advanced speeds and timings. Crucial's new high-performance RAM has a limited lifetime warranty, which is limited to within ten years of the date of purchase. Crucial's new Ballistix Sport XT DDR3 RAM comes in both single DIMM's, dual-channel kits and quad-channel kits.
ASUS will be showing off a ton of new products at this years's Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan. A lot of products will feature the new Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac, and to complement those products, the company is launched a new 802.11ac router.
The new ASUS RT-AC68U is being touted as the first dual-band 802.11ac router with AC1900 data rates up to 1900Mbps. This performance can be attributed to AiRadar Beamforming technology, which helps establish a stronger connections and produce 250 percent better range.
ASUS says that you will also build a file share between other ASUS routers via attached USB drives with no need for a PC or other device handling the transfer. At the time of publishing, there is no word on pricing or availability, but previous ASUS flagship routers ran in the $200 range and it would be safe to expect the RT-AC68U to be near that as well.