China is now accused of doing what Washington spent years trying to prevent: building its own version of the world’s most ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, but cheap crap from China is the mother of reverse engineering. [Michael] found a very, very cheap toy quadcopter in his local shop, and issued a challenge to ...

EUV lithography is a complex, secretive manufacturing process that produces the world’s most advanced chips. Only one company ...

If you have followed the group of reverse engineers whose work on classic pieces of silicon we feature regularly here at Hackaday, you may well be familiar with the appearance of the various ...

Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It's also what ...

Whether it’s rebuilding a car engine or diagramming a sentence, people can learn about many things simply by taking them apart and putting them back together again. That, in a nutshell, is the concept ...

But amid the charred ruins of one of the largest oxygen-producing environments on the planet, a secret lies buried beneath the soil. A complex network of seeds, scat, fungi and fertilizers are already ...

“Reverse engineering” has something of a negative connotation. People tend to associate it with corporate espionage or creative desperation. In reality, reverse engineering is a useful skill and a ...