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San Diego: City officials enact plan to get rid of bird guano stench near La Jolla Cove

2013-05-26 02:12:38| Biotech - Topix.net

A private company will begin assessing the hazardous conditions near La Jolla Cove caused by accumulated bird guano and its overwhelming stench this weekend, and planned to apply a product to neutralize the stench in a portion of the affected area on Tuesday, it was announced.

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PayPal wants to get rid of your wallet

2013-05-21 19:38:13| CNET News.com

The mobile payments company announces an expansion of its "order ahead and skip the line" feature, and its new partner, RadioShack. [Read more]

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CRT challenge looks for new ways to get rid of old picture tubes

2013-04-16 16:35:16| Product Reviews by ConsumerSearch.com

The cathode-ray tube (CRT) is, for all intents and purposes, dead. Long the predominant technology for TVs, computer monitors, and more, CRTs have given way to beautiful flat-panel monitors, mostly LCDs.But while the CRT is dead, it can't be forgotten -- not with somewhere around two billion pounds of obsolete TVs, computer monitors and other hardware that's reaching the end of its product lifecycle. What to do with all of that e-waste -- in particular, the lead-laden glass from old picture tubes -- has become a major headache that promises to only get bigger.Stumped for answers, industry is turning to the public for help. If you think you have an innovative use for CRT glass, your idea can earn all or part of a $10,000 prize.read more

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Spleen-on-a-chip uses magnetic nanobeads to rid blood of pathogens

2013-04-15 19:48:04| Extremetech

We live in a world where we can't quite replace our internal organs without having another internal organ on standby. Every so often, there is a breakthrough in prosthetic, bionic limb technology, but humans can't quite replace their entire hearts or brains with a machine counterpart as of yet. The only thing we can do is add a machine supplement. Now, though, scientists at Harvard have built a machine spleen, which is able to remove pathogens from the bloodstream through the use of magnetic nanobeads.

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