Blood vessels made on 3D printer

Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for transplants of lab-created organs, reveals the BBC.

Until now, the stumbling block in tissue engineering has been supplying artificial tissue with nutrients that have to arrive via capillary vessels.

A team at the Fraunhofer Institute, in Germany, has solved that problem using 3D printing and a technique called multiphoton polymerisation.

Google's enterprise Gmail offering now presents a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange Online, according to analyst firm Gartner, writes Computing.co.uk.

Gmail has been building momentum with enterprises with more than 5 000 users since it entered the cloud e-mail market five years ago.

“The road to enterprise enlightenment has been long and bumpy, but Gmail should now be considered a mainstream cloud e-mail supplier,” says Matthew Cain, research VP at Gartner.

Yahoo has given interim CEO Tim Morse a 25% raise for stepping into the leadership void created by the struggling Internet company's recent firing of Carol Bartz, according to the Associated Press.

Morse's salary is now $750 000, up from $600 000, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. Already Yahoo's chief financial officer, Morse took on the additional role of interim CEO on 6 September when Yahoo's board of directors ousted his boss, Carol Bartz.

Yahoo's board is now reviewing whether it makes sense to sell the company, either in parts or in its entirety.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries factories that build guided missiles and rocket engines, submarines, and nuclear-power equipment have had their computer networks hacked, according to a report, says Cnet.

The Reuters news agency said Japanese newspaper Yomiuri reported that information from Mitsubishi's computer system was stolen in the attack.

A company representative confirmed the attack, Reuters reported, but said the company was still looking into whether any data had been taken.