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Bill Gates Persuades Billionaires to Donate Half Their Fortunes
August 4 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
Bill Gates, billionaire and former CEO of Microsoft, is trying just as hard to change the world through philanthropy as he did through computers. Gates recently convinced over 30 billionaires to give away… View Full Article »
Motorola and Verizon Rumored to Be Making TV Tablet
August 4 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
The tablet market gets more crowded every day, but at least the latest news includes a bit of a twist. Motorola and Verizon are said to be working on an Android tablet that also has access to TV subscriptions.
We've… View Full Article »
Samsung Patents Tablet with Front and Rear Touchscreens
August 4 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
Samsung has filed for a patent of a new tablet concept with not one touchscreen, but two. Instead of side-by-side screens, one is located on the back of the device.
This isn't the first time companies… View Full Article »
Gamers Go Where Computers Can't in Solving a Protein Puzzle
August 4 , 2010, by Michelle Bryner, TechNewsDaily Contributor
An online game called Foldit is combining the intelligence of thousands of gamers with that of computer processors to solve real-world problems that neither organic nor silicon brains can solve alone.
The… View Full Article »
Facebook Credits Now Available at 7-11 Stores
August 4 , 2010, by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer
A late night run to 7/11 could now lead to an agonizing decision: Slurpee or a new chicken for your virtual farm on FarmVille.PayNearMe has launched a payment system that allows Facebook game players to… View Full Article »
Lab Creates Hands-Free Nintendo Controller
August 4 , 2010, by Stuart Fox, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
The Nintendo Wii revolutionized gaming by changing how players interact with the game. By modifying an old NES, Waterloo Labs has taken that revolution one step further. By combining eye tracking technology… View Full Article »
10 Medieval Weapons that Changed the Face of Warfare
August 4 , 2010, by Ned Smith, TechNewsDaily Contributor
Medieval weapons may look decidedly low-tech today, but back in the day they represented state-of-the-art battle gear that determined the fate of nations and changed the face of warfare.
The tools and… View Full Article »
Comparing the BlackBerry Torch and the iPhone 4
August 3 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
The newly announced BlackBerry Torch is widely recognized as the latest attempt to make BlackBerry relevant to the non-business crowd, in other words, the regular consumers who have been choosing iPhone… View Full Article »
Ultracold Atoms Outline Microwave Field Like Iron Fillings
August 3 , 2010, by TechNewsDaily Staff
Many grade school students perform a simple physics experiment by using iron fillings to outline a magnetic field. Seizing on their inner-child, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics… View Full Article »
Security Breach in Safari Browser Compromises iPhone 4
August 3 , 2010, by Dan Hope, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
The first jailbreak for the iPhone 4 was just barely released, but it has already drawn attention to a serious flaw in iPhone 4 security that allows a website to take over an iPhone just by loading a PDF… View Full Article »
