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High-Tech Trash Bins Reveal When Residents Don't Recycle
August 23 , 2010, by Adam Hadhazy, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
Like a green-clad Santa Claus, the city of Cleveland will know if its residents have been good or bad when it comes to recycling, courtesy of new "smart" bins.
Outfitted with tiny radio-frequency identification… View Full Article »
Sneaky New Virus Removes Your Antivirus Protection
August 23 , 2010, by By Ned Smith, TechNewsDaily Contributor
There’s a new breed of malicious malware program spreading across the Web that tricks users into uninstalling the legitimate antivirus software on their computers. Computer experts have long been aware… View Full Article »
Bursting Bubbles Could Inject Drugs Right into Cells
August 23 , 2010, by TechNewsDaily Staff
Bubbles popping – the same phenomenon that crumbles kidney stones and rusts ship propeller blades – might hold the key to successfully injecting drugs directly into individual cells without harming… View Full Article »
New Factory Means Increased Demand for Mirasol Color E-Ink
August 20 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
News that Qualcomm, a microchip manufacturer, is building a $2 billion production plant for the Mirasol display technology means that device makers plan on releasing color e-books.
Mirasol is a technology… View Full Article »
Dell Thunder Prototype Android Phone Tested, Impresses
August 20 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
It came as a bit of a surprise when Dell announced it was making a line of smartphones, but it surprised no one that the company decided to use the extremely popular Android platform in one of them. That… View Full Article »
Malware Implicated in Fatal Spanair Plane Crash
August 20 , 2010, by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer
Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware.
An internal report… View Full Article »
HP Confirms webOS Tablet Coming Early 2011
August 20 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
The rumors have indicated Hewlett-Packard would soon have a webOS tablet, but now the company has officially confirmed that it will sell a webOS tablet in the first quarter of 2011.
The news came from… View Full Article »
Televisions and Landlines On the Decline Among Americans
August 20 , 2010, by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer
Televisions and landlines, once American household fixtures, have shifted from being necessities to castoffs.
Just 42 percent of Americans say they consider the television set to be a necessity, according… View Full Article »
Teachers Asked to 'Unfriend' Students on Facebook
August 20 , 2010, by Samantha Murphy, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer
A school district in Florida is advising teachers not to "friend" students on social networking sites, claiming that teacher-student communication through this medium is "inappropriate."
Earlier this… View Full Article »
BlackBerry Tablet to Run Army Tank Operating System
August 19 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
The BlackBerry tablet, rumored to be called the BlackPad, has always sounded just a bit unusual, and the latest news about it is no different. The BlackPad will reportedly forgo any current mobile operating… View Full Article »
