News Bytes for 7/20/2009
Software can duplicate keys from photographic images of keys– even lousy-quality ones taken at a distance
Acquisition rumor: Amazon buying Netflix?
Swiss postal service lets users check snail mail online
China halts memory-wiping electric shocks for Internet addiction
Prosper, the P2P lending platform, is back in 14 states after SEC approves– coming to more areas soon
Four years after TJX hack, payment industry sets security standards
Microsoft announces version of Office to be available online, for free
Japanese researchers wire a moth’s head to a mobile, wheeled robot
Internet astroturfer fined $300,000
India issuing biometric IDs to all 1.2 billion citizens
Treatment neutralizes muscular dystrophy in mice
Microsoft to open retail stores next to Apple’s
US videogame sales have biggest drop in 9 years
Police in UK bust up a 15-person birthday BBQ because it was listed on Facebook as an all-night event
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