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A professor at the University of Toyama is hoping to make a heart with technology similar to an inkjet printer. The idea is for the printer to jet out thousands of cells per second, rather than ink droplets, and to build them up into a three-dimensional organ.
Microsoft has been granted a patent which involves automatic censoring of explicit language in audio streams. The patent involves real-time (or batch) analysis of an audio stream that can recognize inappropriate language based on phonemes, and then overwrite objectionable words with bleeps, other noises, or silence. Thanks slipkord.
CPU3D have an interview with Fnatic - a team of professional Counter Strike players. This October has been one of their busiest months for Fnatic's CS 1.6 team. Having already won a tournament in Montreal (Canada), they now aim their sights at both Dubai (UAE) and Hangzhou (china) tournaments later this month.
Adobe has released a new version of their Flash Player which fixes the 'clickjacking' vulnerability. The Flash Player update, which upgrades version 9.0.124.0 and earlier to version 10.0.12.36, closes several software holes, including the one used by the clickjacking attack, and makes it harder for attacker to circumvent the security controls, Adobe said in an advisory.
A new addition in the Playstation 3's Terms of Service and User Agreement gives Sony the "right to keep records of anything you say or do online, or to simply listen in." "Any data collected in this way, including the content of your communications, the time and location of your activities, your Online ID and IP address and other related information may be used by us to enforce this Agreement or protect the interests of SCEA, its users, or licensors."
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the amount of spam has barely decreased even though the world's largest spam operation was recently shut down. "I don't believe it has made any statistically significant difference to spam levels at all," Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at security firm Sophos, said. "If one spammer disappears, there are plenty more to take up any slack bandwidth that might appear."
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