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Submission + - Ultrathin Silk-Based Brain Implants (wired.com)

hatboyzero writes: University of Pennsylvania (Penn) engineers have designed silk-based electronics that can stick to the surface of the brain, allowing for better brain-computer interfaces. The researchers say the silk-based devices are thin and flexible enough to reach previously inaccessible areas of the brain.
Programming

When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? 426

jammag writes "A veteran developer looks back — in irritation — at those times he had to work late and his unskilled manager stayed too, just to look over his shoulder and add worry and fret to the process. Now, that same developer is a manager himself — and recently stayed late to ride herd over late-working developers. 'And guess what? Yep, I hadn't coded in years and never in the language he had to work with.' Yet now he understood: his own butt was on the line, so he was staying put. Still, does it really help developers to have management hovering on a late evening, even if the boss handles pizza delivery?"
Cellphones

Submission + - Retrievable iPhone numbers mean potential privacy (macworld.com)

TechnologyResource writes: "When a couple voicemails didnâ(TM)t show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if Iâ(TM)d gotten his messageâ"people just donâ(TM)t call me that often. But a phone it is, as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app theyâ(TM)ve downloaded from the App Store. The application in question, mogoRoad, is a real-time traffic monitoring application. As invasive and despicable as that sounds, it raises another question: how did the company get ahold of the contact information for those users? Mogo claims the details were provided by Apple, but Apple doesnâ(TM)t disclose that information to App Store vendors. French site Mac 4 Ever did some digging and determined it was possibleâ"even easyâ"for an app to retrieve the phone number of a unit on which it was installed."

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