Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys go down the rabbit hole of hacky hacks. A talented group of radio amateurs have been recording and decoding the messages from Tianwen-1, the Mars probe launched by the Chinese National Space Administration on July 23rd. We don’t know exactly how magnets work, but know they do a…

Argos is to stop printing its catalogue after almost 50 years, as the buying bible once found in three-quarters of British homes becomes yet another victim of the inexorable move to online shopping. From a report: More than 1bn copies of the bi-annual catalogue have been printed since its launch in 1973, and at its…

It’s the only suitor in discussions with Arm owner SoftBank, Bloomberg reported. …read more Source:: CNet

Why pay $70 for Nintendo’s controller when you can get this top-rated alternative? …read more Source:: CNet

It’ll be a tough sell against the OnePluses and Motorolas around Another day, another middle-of-the-road phone. This time it’s the turn of Oppo, which just announced the international release of the Reno 4 Pro after an early debut in China. The latest handset from the BKK-owned firm comes with a price tag of (roughly) £355/…

Though no company has produced a flying car at scale, New Hampshire law now says it’s A-OK to drive them on public roads. …read more Source:: CNet

Twitter said Thursday night that it has “significantly limited” access to its internal tools after it learned that the high-profile hack earlier this month affecting dozens of major accounts was the result of a phishing attack targeting the phones of a “small number of employees.” From a report: “This attack relied on a significant and…

Everybody clap your hands. …read more Source:: CNet

The combination of a smaller, less-expensive smartphone and an entry-level tablet makes more sense for returning students who need an equipment upgrade in the fall of 2020. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Twilio, the cloud provider for all things telecom, had an embarrassing security fail a couple weeks ago. The problem was the Amazon S3 bucket that Twilio was using to host part of their public facing content. The bucket was configured for public read-write access. Anyone could use the Amazon S3 API to make changes to…