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  • Scientists are making strides in a field called "bioprinting." They're using essentially the same technology you use on your home printer to apply new skin to people. And they're working on printing entire three-dimensional functioning organs.

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  • Should teachers and students be friends on Facebook? Should they be allowed to send each other private text messages? These are questions that parents, and the state of Virginia, are wrestling with.

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  • Dozens of apps for Android devices have been taken out of circulation by Google. They were apps that can take control of your phone without your even realizing it.

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  • A House subcommittee is expected to pass a resolution today disapproving of recent FCC rules on net neutrality. If the effort to strike down those rules reaches the Senate, it's expected to be shot down. So why are they bothering?

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  • Later on this week, Apple will announce a new version of the iPad. Meanwhile, Amazon will start selling the Kindle in AT&T stores. Popular devices both, but not exactly free. That, however, could change.

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  • You can go online and learn about protests in Africa and the Middle East, the so-called Jasmine Revolution. Videos, news, blogs, tweets, you can see it all. Because you don't live in China.

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  • Apple is announcing an announcement for next week. The technocenti say it will be the release of iPad version two.

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  • Call it the carbon credit caper. A gang of eastern European criminal hackers have stolen more than $50 million in carbon offsets, temporarily shutting down part of the European carbon trading system.

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  • An implantable pressure gauge the size of a paperclip may be a big advance in the treatment of heart failure patients.

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  • The name Max Butler might not call up the same images as names like Al Capone or Jesse James, but maybe it should. Butler, a.k.a. Max Vision, was one of the most successful cybercriminals of all time — before the law caught up with him.

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