One of the first huts to house the Enigma code breaking device at Bletchley Park is to be restored.
However, both these programs hid the core code of the device, limiting what developers and others could do with the gadget.
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That restriction requires that all code run on a device is approved with an unforgeable signature from Apple.
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Not only that, but you can inspect the code on any mobile device as if it were your desktop browser, which takes a lot of the guesswork out of debugging mobile browsers.
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Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
Like Adobe's Flash, Silverlight acted as a wrapper that, once installed on a machine, allowed that device to run code written for it.
And there are many game developers today who first tinkered and programmed on this device using BASIC code, tape drives and floppy discs.
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Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.
In store coupons get pushed to your device with a bar code to be scanned for instant redemption.
Soon after the Kinect's 2010 release, hardware hackers wrote code that let them control the device so they could use it for their own projects.
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By aiming to have one platform run across multiple device footprints, they can leverage the support and tools from the desktop version of Ubuntu and put them into a mobile device running the same code, but with a mobile UI layer on the top.
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And in the meantime he's been spending his days on a hobby that periodically stuns the computer security world: seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple's iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and utterly obliterating its defenses against hackers.
Microsoft has opened up access to some of the code for its Kinect for Windows motion-sensing device.
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In addition, because the middleware has been built to open standards, it means that anyone can use the underlying code to build their own user interface for a device to control networked appliances.
Before you can sign into your Google account from a new computer or device, you have to enter a verification code that Google sends to your phone.
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Those websites rely on running Adobe software code that doesn't reside on a user's device, which Apple's revised guidelines still prohibit.
Its first product accelerates the translation of ubiquitous Java code into bits, the ones and zeros that every digital device can understand.
By reading the encrypted data off of two cards and testing thousands of potential site codes against both cards until the decoded data displays a predictable interval between the two, he can find the site code and use it to create more card keys with a magnetizing device.
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Giving the consumer an option to scan a QR code which leads them to a website that is not optimized for the device they use to scan it is like sending someone with a broken arm in to get a full-body physical.
Woodland, a Manhattan Project scientist, came up with the idea for bar codes while running his fingers through the sand, trying to figure out how to put a unique code on every item of merchandise that could be easily scanned by a mechanical device.
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The real magic happens in the cloud-based software, which sets up the device and allows for infinite possibilities without ever writing a single line of code.
When complete, the same Ubuntu code will deliver a mobile, tablet, desktop or TV experiences depending on the device it is installed on, or where it is docked.
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In 2008, Google launched the open-source Android operating system, licensing mobile software to any and all device makers (at no cost), allowing others to tweak their code and innovate without permission.
In that instance, Google used special computer code to install tracking files known as cookies on some people's computers even if the device was set to block such tracking.
"They might jam a smart device to make systems not available in the airport, or play with the bar code of flight tickets, so that you can have access to a space you shouldn't have access to, " he says, while admitting that these scenarios are extreme.
Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.
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