News Bytes for 7/27/2009

Follow-up: Amazon apologizes for yanking Orwell novels from Kindle electronic reader, says they were never authorized to sell electronic versions

Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs

US withheld reports on the risks of driving while using mobile devices

Tennessee Valley Authority to install first new nuclear reactor in the US since 1995, in 2012

Companies behind EATR biomass-harvesting military drone insist their machine is strictly vegetarian

Hackers produce a rootkit-coding manual for Mac OS X

Major vulnerability found in open-source wireless router firmware DD-WRT

Registrars still ignoring ICANN rulesNetwork Solutions suffers massive data breach

Google Wave to send out 100,000 invites in September

Amazon buys Zappos.com

People emit visible light

Live, breeding mice grown from skin cells

Microsoft bows to Apple’s pressure, changes Laptop Hunter TV ad

PayPal moves to embed self in everything– new set of APIs available

Green diode lasers a big breakthrough for laser-display tech

Associated Press sets up registry to track and protect online content

Facebook lets advertisers use pictures without permission

Human centrifuge preserves muscle at zero-G

Scientists worry machines may outsmart man

Same-name couple to wed after meeting on Facebook

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