As reported on The Verge. By Matt Stroud Texas and other states fight to get their fix In 1998, Michael Yowell was convicted of killing his parents while trying to steal their money to buy drugs. After the killings, he was arrested and charged with murder. Since he lived in Texas, it was a capital offense; he was eventually convicted and sentenced to death. At the beginning of this month, after 15 years of waiting on…
As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris The latest part of Banksy’s multi-day New York City art show saw the street artist covertly put his art on sale at just $60 a piece. Although it’s difficult to put a value on the stenciled works, collectors’ appetite for original Banksy art is generally insatiable, and even the safest estimate would be tens of thousands of dollars per piece. There were dozens of stencils on sale at…
As reported on TechCrunch. by MG SIEGLER A simple link. That’s all it took to unleash a hailstorm of angry emails, messages, tweets, and comments. Why? I dared wonder if libraries will continue to exist in the future. I mean, it’s not that crazy a notion, right? (Ifyou’re a librarian, you’re not allowed to answer that.) Last Monday, I linked to this piece by Art Brodsky for Wired from my blog. In it, he argues that beyond the recent hoopla around e-book pricing, the…
As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Not every tech company can afford to build a head-mounted display from scratch; thanks to OmniVision’s new OmniGlass reference design, they won’t have to. The template combines a 0.26-inch, 720p liquid crystal on silicon display with a 4-megapixel camera and an imaging chip, giving firms most of what they’d need to craft a Google Glass-like wearable computer beyond the computer itself. Don’t anticipate a flood of me-too products just yet, though. OmniGlass developer kits…
As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr The bigger the phone, the harder it is to hide. After a slew of detailed leaks, HTC is finally ready to announce the HTC One Max: an enlarged version of the original Onethat boosts the size of the 1080p LCD panel up to 5.9 inches while attempting to keep the One’s classy aluminum look and feel. This attempt is made regardless of the impact on general portability — the One Max weighs 217…