Facebook with New Security Tools

David Talbot - Facebook is countering reports about scams affecting its users and a rising user perception of insecurity with new security tweaks and the release of statistics suggesting that most of its 800 million active users experience few problems.

The company is also announcing two new features. One generates passwords for your Facebook apps to protect your main account; another deals with a side effect of security the lockdown of compromised accounts by enabling your Facebook friends to help you recover an account.

A More Modern Blood Thinner

Erica Westly - Researchers have developed an easier and potentially cheaper method of synthesizing heparin, a widely used blood thinner that is typically made from pig intestines or cow lungs. While a form of synthetic heparin is already available, the animal-derived version is cheaper and dominates the market; it costs about $5 to $35, versus $50 to $60 for the same dosage of the synthetic. The new technique might also lead to the development of new kinds of heparin, which could be useful for treating asthma and other disorders that are not related to blood clotting.

Lighting Sheets Made of Tiny LEDs

Kevin Bullis - A company called Nth Degree Technologies hopes to replace light bulbs with what look like glowing sheets of paper (as shown in this video). The company's first commercial product is a two-by-four-foot-square light, which it plans to start shipping to select customers for evaluation by the end of the year.

The technology could allow for novel lighting designs at costs comparable to the fluorescent light bulbs and fixtures used now, says Neil Shotton, Nth Degree's president and CEO. Light could be emitted over large areas from curved surfaces of unusual shapes. The printing processes used to make the lights also make it easy to vary the color and brightness of the light emitted by a fixture. "It's a new kind of lighting," Shotton says.

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