These folks walk in, take a microphone and get to work.

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The first to take the microphone and address the gathering was Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saoud Al Thani, the governor of Qatar's central bank and the chairman of the board of directors of Shard Funding Ltd.

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Sony's freshly granted patent claims that a microphone can take on that job instead by listening to the sound your finger or stylus makes when it hits the screen and deducing force from that.

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Detach the microphone boom and take the lightweight headphones with you for a stylish audio solution.

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Hugely sophisticated, it can collect files on a machine, take screen shots, and even activate the microphone on a computer to record conversations.

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In fact, if you want to take advantage of the drum kit, guitar and microphone in the hot-selling Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 title "Rock Band" it helps to have more than a few friends.

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The malware can steal data and social-network conversations, take snapshots of computer screens, penetrate across networks, turn on a computer's microphone to record audio and scan for Bluetooth-active devices.

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