The iPhone 4′s Retina Display is 3.5 inches, with a resolution of 960×640 and a pixel density of 326ppi. Pretty much everyone agrees it looks great. So how incredible must ORTUS’s new 4.8-inch, 1,920×1080, 458ppi display look? ORTUS, a collaborative venture between Casio and Toppan Printing, announced the Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) display today in Japan. The company claims it’s up to 30% brighter than...

What to do with your aging MacBook Air now that Apple’s introduced two shiny new models? Blow it up, of course. Blow it up with two sticks of M-1000 dynamite. Since there were hipsters involved, I’m assuming the whole project was conceived somehow ironically. But ultimately they’re right; there’s something poetic about a MacBook Air becoming just plain old...

Some leaked documents out of Redmond show a whole bevy of new features headed to the next version of Microsoft’s OS, including some very Kinect-like features. Those features involve a camera being able to detect you via facial recognition when you sit down and sign you in automatically. When you get up and leave, it can go to sleep automatically as well. Additionally, if someone else shows up, it can quickly switch between user...

Back in 2009, 28-year-old Matthew Crippen of Anaheim was arrested for installing a mod chip on the Xbox 360 of an undercover ICE agent… a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which says that a user can not modify a device to willingly circumvent DRM. Today, Crippen is fighting to be exonerated from the charges, which could land him in prison for up to three years… and he’s got an expert witness willing to testify him...

Google announced today that the Wi-Fi snooping its Street View vans were engaged in was even worse than previously acknowledged. The company announced today that entire URLs, emails, and passwords were collected as well. And they still have it. Google broke the news at the end of a lengthy blog post late Friday afternoon, so it’s safe to say it’s something they’re not particularly proud of. The revelation didn’t...