In regard to Jim Rapozas Sept. 5 Tech Directions column on reverse engineering (“What Is Reverse Engineering?”), its almost impossible to have your cake and eat it, too. You cant [differentiate] the ...

Many of will have marveled at the feats of reverse engineering achieved by decapping integrated circuits and decoding their secrets by examining the raw silicon die. Few of us will have a go for ...

To isolate the components of a completed system. When a chip is reverse engineered, all the individual circuits that make up the chip are identified. Source code can be reverse engineered into design ...

Reverse engineering, copying the function or the mechanism of the function? Reverse engineering refers us to an analysis of a system or an inspiration of a system. In Burkina Faso, a few years ago, I ...

It's the same philosophy for electric-car batteries as for plastic grocery bags—almost. Knowing what happens to lithium-ion batteries from phones, cameras, and other electronic devices, many ...

Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone? Even the debate pitting creationism against evolution never raises the argument that ...

Last year, we’ve featured a super cheap smart ring – BLE, accelerometer, heart sensor, and a battery, all in a tiny package that fits on your finger. Back when we covered it, we expected either ...