Police Arrest 26 AIDS Activists at Capitol Protest

AIDS protesters in the Rotunda of the US Capitol Building in Washington on Wednesday. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch / UPI)

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US Agrees to Landmark Pledge to Slash Emissions

    G8 commits to cutting carbon output by 80 per cent - and tells China and India to follow suit.

    L'Aquila - The world's richest nations agreed last night to cut their carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 in a dramatic attempt to secure a new global deal to combat climate change.

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Murdoch Papers Paid £1 Million to Gag Phone-Hacking Victims

    Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

    The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures and to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data including ta

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Double Suicide Bombing Kills 34 in Iraq

    Mosul - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in northern Iraq, killing at least 34 people in the deadliest attack since US forces pulled out of towns and cities nationwide just over a week ago.

    The bombers targeted two brothers working for Iraqi security forces in Tal Afar in an attack against a building used as a court annexe to interrogate suspects in "terrorist attacks," police colonel Khaled Omar told AFP.

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The Dirty War

    On Friday, June 12, Harith al-Obaidi, leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament, was shot dead outside a mosque just minutes after giving a sermon condemning the Maliki government for human rights abuses.

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Build a Sensory Robot with Arduino and Processing

An infrared proximity sensor on a robot can give it ‘eyesight’ to make sense of the real world. Cory Barton has used an inexpensive Sharp distance sensor, an Arduino and the open source Processing language to build his robotics project. The idea is to use the infrared sensors mounted on the robot to detect surrounding [...]

DIY Continuous Ink Printer = Unlimited Free Printing

Instead of paying for absurdly priced printer cartridges, build yourself a Continuous Ink Printer (CIS) which can be made by hacking an old printer to suck ink from external reservoirs.  You can get the raw ink for dirt cheap so it’s essentially like unlimited printing for free (besides the paper).  So now you can actually [...]

How to: A Basic Case Mod Tutorial

This guide is a basic introduction to custom case modding. While we prefer all out customization, it’s important to start somewhere with basic lighting, cutting, and painting techniques. The guide walks you through the hands on skills and equipment. To modify a plain PC case into your custom beast of a machine, [...]

Make a DIY Fiber Optic Star Ceiling

Fiber optics are just plain amazing. They carry data at ridiculous speeds and have a whole assortment of lighting possibilities too. There are a few main types of fiber optics including end glow and side glow (pretty self explanatory) and cheap on Ebay. It’s perfect for custom lighting solutions from ambient lighting [...]

Patriotic USB Powered American Flag

Happy 4th of July from HacknMod! Here’s a quick, simple project for your 4th of July celebration: a computer playing the anthem along with a flying American flag illuminated and powered via USB. The setup is simple and easy to put together. The project put together by Evan Roth’s project is definately salute [...]