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Submission + - China won't license new Internet cafes (holyhell.net)

Submitted by dteichman2
dteichman2 writes: While regulators investigate the Internet's impact on young people, China will not be licensing any new Internet cafes. Investigators will evaluate cafes and look for those that improperly rent out their licenses or fail to properly register the identities of customers. Government authorities worry that the Web may provide children with access to gambling sites, sexually explicit material, and violent video games. Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered officials to clean up 'Internet culture.'
Biotech

Submission + - Technique to turn all blood into type 0

Submitted by davidwr
davidwr writes: Is this the end of type-O blood shortages? In an article published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers figured out how to make bacterial enzymes turn type-A, -B, and -AB blood into type O blood, or "universal red blood cells." From the abstract:

The enzymatic conversion processes we describe hold promise for achieving the goal of producing universal RBCs, which would improve the blood supply while enhancing the safety of clinical transfusions.
Related story.
Software

Submission + - OpenOffice 2.2 Released

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xsspd2004
xsspd2004 writes: "http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3561829136.html

The OpenOffice.org Community on March 29 announced the release of a major upgrade to OpenOffice: version 2.2. The group claims that with upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, the free office suite provides a real alternative to Microsoft's recently-released Office 2007 product."
Portables

Submission + - Meet the OLPC team

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gregdek
gregdek writes: "Wanna meet the people responsible for developing the OLPC? Red Hat Magazine is running the first of a series of videos on the OLPC team. Go inside OLPC headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Meet the faces behind the education-meets-technology project. See where they work, how they work, and why they work."
Input Devices

Submission + - Control video games with your bain

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An anonymous reader writes: For many years companies have been striving to read brain waves to control machines, well, OCZ is close to releasing a retail product which can read your brain waves and allows you to play video games (like Unreal Tournament 2004) by just reading your brain waves, monitoring eye movement and facial expressions; It's an amazing thing to see (Youtube video), more detail on the OCZ Actuator can be found in this article.
Music

Submission + - NetTunes: the new Napster

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An anonymous reader writes: PC World of New Zealand has an interesting article about a new music sharing service called NetTunes.
From the article:

Recording industry attack lawyers are no doubt being readied after the emergence of a new and apparently legal form of music sharing. Called NetTunes, it's basically a mutual fund for music.

Copyright law has always allowed you to lend CDs to friends. NetTunes simply extends your friendship network to encompass all other registered users.

The concept is deliciously simple. You spend most of your life not playing a particular song — meaning another of your new friends is free to play it. And if there happens to be 20 or 2,000 copies of that particular track on NetTunes, then the chances of any one copy being available to play right now is very high.

The beta service is currently a free registration, so get in quick. It's Windows only for now (though the software works perfectly under Wine on Linux), and a Mac version's on the way.
NetTunes website

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