News Bytes for 7/13/2009

T. Boone Pickens calls off massive wind farm in Texas

Google removes “beta” label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Talk, and Google Video for Business

Codex Sinaiticus — oldest version of the Christian Bible– scanned in its entirety and put online

Social Security numbers can be determined from a person’s publicly available data

Haystack– an anti-censorship tool specifically for users in Iran– to launch soon

Celebrity-shielding flashgun handbag defeats the paparazzi

Goldman-Sachs trading desk software could be loose on the Internet

Amazon is killing mobile apps that use its data

Magazine journalists use a commercial satellite to locate massive arms shipment pirated off the coast of Somalia last year

A complex hack and con job steals $415,000 from Bullitt county government in Kentucky, USA

MIT researchers develop light-detecting fibers that could be used as “camera” fabric

H1N1 vaccine should be ready by mid-October, says US secretary of health & human services

Apple to sell iPhone sans WiFi in China

Palm Pre unlocked– shown running on Verizon’s network

Verizon leads, AT&T runs last in Wired.com’s 3G speed test

Robotic glider set to break autonomous flight records

Swearing provides pain relief, say scientists

Baby pictures in lost wallets increase the chance they will be returned

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