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Amazon Kindle gets more heroic and watch out for Clippy the destroyer I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update holy acquisition Batman Amazon purchased the most popular comic book app comiXology Amazon didn't say how much it paid for it but comiXology is a big deal in the comic world it's the go-to app to purchase and read digital comic books and it works with 75 publishers worldwide it was the number one grossing non gaming app for the past two years last month it offered 700 Marvel comics for free and its servers crashed because it couldn't handle the demand it's yet to be seen how Amazon's purchase will mutate comixology Sony's via laptops are hot no really I mean they're hot and they can cause a fire if you have a brand new vaio fit a which came out in February of this year Sony's warning people to unplug and stop using the laptop because of a fire risk sony says some of the internal non removable battery packs made by another company have the potential to overheat and burn the computer casing there's no way to get a refund or fix just yet but sony says it's working on that in the meantime just stop using it if you want to be among the first people to own the Google glass headset Google is opening up sales of glass to anyone in the US for one day only Tuesday April 15th the number sold will be limited and sales begin at 6 a.m. Pacific 9:00 a.m. Eastern but to become a glass Explorer in these early testing days it will cost you fifteen hundred dollars plus tax most of the world will probably want to wait until there's a more finalized version available at a lower price as you may know Windows XP met its demise a few days ago Microsoft will no longer support the 12-year old system but Microsoft decided to have a little fun as it says goodbye to XP and to ie6 it created a game called escape from XP as the story goes long long ago Windows XP rose like a phoenix from the ashes of Windows 2000 but as newer operating systems along Windows XP clung to life a pestilence on the peaceful developer community most developers fled but one still remains one man one hero still supporting ie6 on XP and you must fight the final battle to destroy it once and for all jumping on ruins of Windows shooting up broken zombie monitors and flaming recycling bins that crawl towards you with Clippy in the distance destroying all in his path and at the end you can blow it up with a reminder that Microsoft will be there to help with future developer support that's your tech news update you can find the link to the game along with more details on today's stories as cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey