A recent report by CNet states that Google’s street view cars collected user’s location information through open Wi-Fi hotspots. If your device was being used as a wireless router, Google captured its MAC address, which could be used to discover its location. Google stated that non-static hotspots are supposed to be deleted from the database. In other news, Research In Motion recently announced that it would 2,000 jobs from its global work force. The 11% cut in personnel comes amidst deep slashes in revenue forecasts, dropping stock prices and a lack of competitive products in the mobile space. And finally, researchers have created a breakthrough artificial lung that is as functional as the human organ. The device’s performance could allow for the creation of a portable pseudo-lung that could run off of a patient’s own heart. Its creators believe we could be seeing clinical trials within the decade.
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