“Most current 3D bioprinters are bulky, work at low speeds, are expensive and are incompatible with clinical application,” said U of T Associate Professor Axel Guenther. Their printer, on the other hand, weighs two pounds, making it feasible to use during surgery. It’s also the first device that can form tissue, depositing and setting it in-situ, within two minutes or less, the team said.

Patients with deep wounds often have damage to all of their skin layers, including the hypodermis, dermis and epidermis. Doctors would normally treat that with a technique called split-thickness skin grafting, but if the wound is too large, it’s difficult to find a sufficient quantity of donor skin. That leaves portions uncovered, leading to healing problems.

The U of T bioprinter could fill that gap, letting doctors quickly apply collagen, the most common dermis protein, and a protein associated with healing, fibrin, to untreated parts of the wound. “Our skin printer promises to tailor tissues to specific patients and wound characteristics,” said PhD student Navid Hakimi.

We’ve seen other 3D skin printing solutions before, but they’ve yet to be applied to human patients. The U of T team hasn’t used the tech on people either, but has tested it on pigs. Next up, the team plans to add new capabilities like enlarging the printer width to cover wider wounds. They’ll also perform more in vivo studies at Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital, with the goal of eventually testing it on humans.

Microsoft Launcher is also receiving proper enterprise support with updates for discovering line of business apps and IT configuration advisement. If you live in a Microsoft-heavy workplace, you may not have to do much to get your device ready for use.

There isn’t much more information about these features today, but Microsoft is expected to share additional details on May 8th.

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There was a human driver behind the wheel, but they reportedly took their eyes off the road in the seconds leading up to the crash. Uber settled with the family of the victim, but the resulting panic caused the Arizona governor to halt all testing, and other companies voluntarily delayed their own testing until the dust settled. Uber is conducting an investigation into the system alongside the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), but the ridesharing company is expected to reach an initial conclusion far ahead of the NTSB’s much more detailed report.

ZooPark has evolved over four generations, having started as simple malware that could “only” steal device account details and address book contacts. The last generation, however, can monitor and exfiltrate keylogs, clipboard data, browser data including searching history, photos and video from the memory card, call records and audio, and data from secure apps like Telegram. It can also capture photos, video, audio and screenshots on its own, without the subject knowing. To get the data out, it can silently make calls, send texts and execute shell commands.

Kaspersky — a company with its own spotty security history that has been banned by the US government — said that it has seen less than 100 targets in the wild. “This and other clues indicates that the targets are specifically selected,” Kasperky Lab’s Alexey Firsh told ZDNet. It also implies that the campaign is backed by a nation state, though the security firm didn’t say which.

At the same time, Kaspersky suggested that the malware might not have been built in-house. “The latest version may have been bought from vendors of surveillance tools,” it wrote. “That wouldn’t be surprising, as the market for those espionage tools is growing, becoming popular among governments, with several known cases in the Middle East.”

As is now known, a lot of those tools came from the US government itself. A group called Shadow Brokers famously stole exploits from the NSA — some of the zero day, unpatched variety — and eventually released them to the public. In other words, a hacking group was able to obtain malware from what should be the most secure agency in the world. That’s one of the reasons that security experts and companies like Apple don’t trust the US government with device backdoors.