Month: October 2013

Mobile

5.9-inch HTC One Max With Fingerprint Sensor Allows You To Launch Apps With A Touch

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON HTC has revealed its latest smartphone, the 5.9-inch big-screen sibling of the HTC One flagship device. The new HTC One Max is well into phablet territory at nearly 6 inches, but retains the slick aluminum case design of its smaller predecessor, as well as the somewhat dodgy Ultrapixel camera. But its full 1080p screen packs an impressive 349 ppi, and it has a fingerprint sensor on the back with…

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Government Security

NSA collecting email and messaging contacts worldwide, Yahoo moves to encrypt webmail by default

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Don’t think that the NSA’s bulk communication data collection is focused solely on the communications themselves. The Washington Post has published more Edward Snowden documents which reveal that the agency collects large volumes of contact lists from email and instant messaging users around the world. While the NSA gathers the information on foreign soil, its method reportedly prevents it from automatically screening out any Americans in the list. The NSA and anonymous officials argue that American laws…

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Internet

Researchers achieve 100 Gbps over sub-terahertz wireless, set world record

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos 100 Gbps over fiber is old news, but those same speeds achieved wirelessly? That’s a first. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have managed to use sub-terahertz waves (237.5 GHz, in this case) to transmit data over 20 meters at 100 gigabits per second. Since the experiment used only a single-input and single-output setup, TG Daily notes multiple data streams could boost the bandwidth. This isn’t the first time the group’s dabbled in incredibly-fast wireless…

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Article

As drug companies back away from death row, who will fill the gap?

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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…

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Art Culture

New Yorkers miss chance to own an original Banksy for just $60

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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…

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Article

The End Of The Library

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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…

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Business Culture Hardware Dev

OmniVision template could lead to more Glass-like wearable displays

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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…

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Mobile

HTC launches One Max with huge 5.9-inch display and fingerprint scanner

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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…

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Google

A first look inside Google’s futuristic quantum lab

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom In May, Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and technical expertise from NASA. It was an ambitious open research project aimed at exploring both the capabilities of quantum computer architecture and the mysteries of space exploration — but in the months since, they’ve stayed quiet about exactly what kind of work they’ve been doing there.   OPERATED AT NEAR-ABSOLUTE-ZERO TEMPERATURES…

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Business Culture Tablet

The CEOs Are Wrong: Smart Machines Will Replace Millions Of Jobs

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Smart machines are coming to the business world, but don’t tell that to the CEOs. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a “futurist fantasy.” The survey results reflect the anxiety about automation of the work world and the advent of smart machines that Gartner says will have a widespread and deep business impact by…

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