The microcomputer designed to get kids interested in coding powers down when hit with high-intensity, long-wave flashes from cameras. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has ...

One user of the newly available Raspberry Pi 2 computer has discovered a pretty weird flaw with the new hardware: If you shoot the cheapy computer with a camera flash, it shuts right the hell down. In ...

A Raspberry Pi is a cheap, tiny computer that can be used for tech projects and teaching people how to code. The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced on February 2 the new Raspberry Pi 2, a more powerful ...

As we discovered at the start of the month, the Raspberry Pi 2 brings a lot of good stuff to the table. We're talking double the RAM, a quad-core processor, Windows 10 support - it's all great stuff.

In February 2015, early users of the Raspberry Pi 2 noted that the single-board computer would reboot if you took a flash photograph. Wags soon dubbed this phenomenon the Xenon Death Flash, in the ...

The Raspberry Pi 2 is tiny, cheap, and surprisingly powerful, but the miniature computer apparently has a weakness — camera flashes. Earlier this week, some Pi 2 users found that their devices turned ...

The new Raspberry Pi 2 caught a huge number of attention because of its small size and cheap price. However, early users have learned that the credit card-sized PC tends to switch off after they have ...

A strange issue has been discovered with the new Raspberry Pi 2 mini computer that causes the hardware to reboot when taking its photograph using a Xenon flash. As you can see in the video below, when ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking to add a little more illumination to their Raspberry Pi camera module may be interested in a new flash module called the mFlash, specifically designed for the official ...

Booting my Raspberry Pi over the network made it faster to manage, easier to maintain, and far more reliable than using SD ...

A hardware enthusiast has stumbled on a curious vulnerability in the recently released next-generation Raspberry Pi computer: it crashes when exposed to certain types of flash photography and lights.