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it's Monday October 31st 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on Sina comm and it's time to get loaded Halloween stuff Stanford University researchers have horrifying news for website security administrators most CAPTCHAs won't stop the bots now CAPTCHAs if you don't know are those blurring jumbled letters meant to make sure human is using the website but researchers invented a way to decode the letter puzzles on many major websites including visas authorized.net Blizzard eBay and Wikipedia of course these sites have other means of security but it proved that not every CAPTCHA is effective however one company's CAPTCHAs cannot be decoded Google there seems to be no stopping them speaking of unstoppable forces if he thought Boogle TV was dead think again this weekend the service reemerged with a software update anyone using Google TV with a Sony device already got the update but if you have a Logitech Revue box well you'll just have to bite your nails and anticipation because it can come at any moment as for new hardware it's coming for you next year that is this next story might seem like a monstrosity to hard core console gamers but Game Stop will now be selling tablet PCs as soos Acer Samsung Android tablets are all coming to 200 GameStop retail stores this Friday each of the tablets will come with seven games like Madden NFL and Dead Space attention programmers and mad scientist's Microsoft announced today that Kinect for Xbox 360 will allow for commercial applications to be made for Windows starting early next year the Kinect software development kit or SDK will that any company create a product using the technology in the motion sensor gaming device we've seen enthusiasts and students invent new uses for the Kinect before but this will allow the applications to be sold some owners of the new iPhone 4s are suffering from a mysterious bug that's sucking the life from their batteries although Apple engineers are trying to determine the cause the guardians suggest one possible Silver Bullet the automatic time zone finder setting seems to be the culprit behind the juice drain as the GPS continues to constantly run turning that setting off seem to work for some users but time will tell if that's the end of the battery nightmare I don't know but my 4s seems you're running just fit as a fiddle and no I don't believe in jinxing myself just because it's Halloween no bad luck is gonna come my way those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey Fusina comm