reverse engineering
Americannoun
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USA Rare Earth dismissed the charges in a rebuttal it filed in Texas court last week, saying the technology is “readily ascertainable via independent development, reverse engineering, and/or other proper means.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
“So it was kind of reverse engineering what shopping centers had been for decades.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Biohacking covers a range of activities, from performing gene-editing in garages to synthesizing the ingredients of certain medicines or technologies and publishing DIY instructions on how to make them at home to reverse engineering vaccines.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2024
Bioengineering researcher Dr. Anirban Paul, first author of the paper, used reverse engineering to find a solution.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
In telling the story, Bunnie has also created a kind of Bible for reverse engineering and hardware hacking.
From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory
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