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A new feature in Google’s Picasa image management application, which is incredibly good at identifying faces, allows you to set Google Contacts photos for every contact you have a picture of in a couple clicks. More »

While R&D money has been thrown willy-nilly towards the pursuit
of touch-screen computers and rocket ships, researchers have all but
forgotten the lowly toothbrush. All, that is, but one intrepid Canadian
researcher who has developed a toothbrush that forgoes toothpaste by
utilizing electrons to foster natural chemical reactions to clean teeth.
And it can be run on the same amount of energy as a light-powered
calculator.

The concept has been in development for over 15 years by Dr. Kunio
Komiyama, a dentistry professor emeritus at the University of
Saskatchewan. The current version, the Soladey-J3X, is manufactured by
Japan-based Shiken company and is about to undergo real world tests. It
works by directing electrons to the bristles from a small solar panel at
the brush’s base. The electrons react with acids in the mouth to kill
bacteria and breakdown plaque. No toothpaste necessary.

It’s a small innovation but, if it is proven to work, this is just
the kind of innovation that can help help cut down on the carbon
footprint of electronic toothbrushes as well as from the industrial
creation of toothpaste (a $2.2 billion dollar market in the US alone).
It’s a good thing.

Via Physorg, source (Japanese) cnbeta.com.

Technically speaking, we already know what Toshiba’s Smart Pad will look like. It was waved around in Australia briefly, and these shots seem to match it perfectly, but corroboration for their validity is otherwise light on the ground. Should you opt to trust them, after the break you’ll find visual confirmation for the HDMI and USB ports already promised by Toshiba, along with a memory card reader and a pleasingly slender profile. The four touch buttons on its right side just scream Android as the operating system, and the whole thing again reminds us of the Compal tablet we saw back at CES and subsequently accused of being a Toshiba-in-waiting. Notebook Italia expects this bad boy to step out of the shadows properly at IFA this year, and we already know Toshiba is cranking hard on bringing us a tablet of some description by the end of October. Fun times ahead, eh?

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The NHL will change its regular-season tiebreaking system for the 2010-11 season, ESPN.com reported Saturday.

AV-Test.org, a group with more than 15 years of experience in the area of anti-virus research and data security, has given Microsoft Security Essentials their certificate of approval. They tested 19 anti-virus and security applications in the second quarter this year, all but four certified: Trend Micro Internet Security Pro…

Storm damage and widespread flooding will cost the Saskatchewan government an extra $162 million this year, the Finance Ministry says.

Only months after Microsoft Office 2010, also known as Office 14, was released to manufacturing and two months after it was generally available in stores, details and screenshots of Office 15, or Office 2014 have leak onto the web.

The pre-alpha builds posted by Softpedia via Wzor, a Russian…

The first thing that comes to mind when you saw Microsoft’s new Arc mouse may very well be that it is some sort of multi-touch enabled device. You might imagine that it is designed to emulate a Laptop Trackpad. However, Microsoft states that that isn’t the case at all. This…

We’d heard HP’s Todd Bradley had confidentially told employees that a webOS tablet would arrive in Q1 2011, but now the man’s gone on the record in the company’s Q3 2010 earnings call. “You’ll see us with a Microsoft product out in the near future and a webOS-based product in early 2011,” he told investors and analysts in response to a direct question about tablets this afternoon, adding that potential slates were part of the reason HP bought Palm in the first place. Now, we’re not financial experts, but we’ve heard it’s typically a good idea not to promise things to your shareholders if you don’t intend to deliver. In other words, there’s a good bet the PalmPad is actually not an imaginary friend our subconscious created after Mark Hurd’s hateful words in June.

[Thanks, Robert]

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A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.

Watch all these guys, looking idiotic at the sight of this pretty girl stripping for them, until she turns into she-devil. I haven’t enjoyed a ChatRoulette trick this much since the snake vs baby chicken flashing boob ruse. More »

Sharp’s 60″ PN-L601B Blackboard, announced today in Japan, ditches the SMART Board’s projector in lieu of a 1,920×1,080, LED-backlit LCD display. It’s almost awesome enough to make me want to draw sentence diagrams for Catcher In the Rye. More »

Mozilla is planning on releasing Firefox beta 4 on Monday with two major new features: hardware-accelerated graphics for Windows users and tab sets, or better known as tab candy. Hardware-accelerated graphics done with Direct2D will not be turned on by default, as Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, sent…

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A Nova Scotia company has won the latest contract to produce vehicle license plates for Saskatchewan, a move that is attracting criticism from some politicians.

Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has annouced that it’s brand new location service goes live tonight, dubbed “Facebook Places.” The new service is similar to that of Foursquare, and allows users to check in, as well as geotag photos to a location.

The integration was actually leaked slightly early today, as…

Google today launched a new Gmail Labs feature called Apps Search that, when enabled, lets you search both your inbox and Google Docs straight from Gmail. More »

We can’t say Digitimes is overflowing with details on Toshiba’s long rumored Android tablet, but it looks like we should be marking our planners for a September or October release. As we’ve heard before the 10-inch tablet will run some version of Android and will be powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The early fall timing surely does make sense to us considering we just heard from NVIDIA this week that many of its partners are planning to release Tegra 2 devices in that time frame. Again, no real details on what Toshiba’s planning here in terms of pricing and specs, but here’s hoping it’s significantly less expensive than that new, fancy dualscreen Libretto W100.

Note: That’s not the actual Toshiba Android tablet up there — it’s just a poor Photoshop of the Toshiba JournE with a Android screen.

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High school boys, rejoice! Perhaps it was Clinton’s infamous sex-ed lesson that oral sex isn’t technically sex, but whatever the reason, a new study says oral sex is occurring a lot more often.