daily links: april 2012

4.2.12
MSNBC—Supreme Court rules that strip searches for those accused of minor offenses are legal
USA Today—Burger King undergoing major facelift and menu revamp
CBS News—Safe stolen from L.A. home had $10 million cash inside
ABCnews.com—Ashton Kutcher reportedly cast as Steve Jobs in the tech visionary's biopic
CNN.com—Sarah Palin to co-host the Today show
Fox News—Angry Birds animated show coming this fall


4.3.12
CBS News—Nike unveils new designs for NFL uniforms
CNN.com—Dumb and Dumber 2 to film later this year with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
USA Today—Burger King to be listed on NYSE again
Fox News—Apple could become world's first trillion dollar company
MSNBC—Modern Warfare 3 players planning protest over game's flaws that have yet to be addressed by the developer
ABCnews.com—Angry Birds animated show coming this fall


4.4.12
CNN.com—Google's Project Glass aims to integrate augmented reality into a pair of glasses
USA Today—Electronic Arts named worst company in America
CBS News—Researchers find evidence that humans were using fire one million years ago
ABCnews.com—Domino's new ad campaign touts its refusal to alter the recipes of its artisan pizzas
Fox News—TaxMasters fined nearly $200 million
MSNBC—Connecticut on the verge of abolishing the death penalty


4.5.12
BBC News—After complaints from fans, Mass Effect developers to offer expanded ending for free
CNN.com—UConn men's basketball team banned from next year's NCAA tournament due to poor academic performance
Fox News—Saints defensive coach caught on tape urging players to intentionally injure their opponents
MSNBC—Keith Olbermann sues Current TV, claiming they owe him as much as $70 million after firing him without cause
USA Today—Matt Lauer reportedly signs long-term contract extension with Today
CBS News—Neil Young working on new digital music compression format


4.6.12
BBC News—Guitar amp pioneer Jim Marshall dies at 88
USA Today—Facebook will reportedly list its shares on the Nasdaq
CNN.com—Trojan horse infects more than half a million Macs
CBS News—Navy jet crashes into apartment building in Virginia Beach
ABCnews.com—10 year old gives birth
MSNBC—North Carolina town where Hunger Games was shot is up for sale


4.9.12
CBS News—60 Minutes mainstay Mike Wallace dies at 93
CNN.com—Mass market artist Thomas Kinkade dies at 54
Fox News—Child hunting for Easter eggs finds hand grenade instead
ABCnews.com—7 year old boy tied to arson cases in Alaska
BBC News—Blur frontman Damon Albarn says the band's show at London's Summer Olympics will be their last
MSNBC—AT&T to allow customers whose contracts have expired to unlock their iPhones for use on other networks


4.10.12
Huffington Post—Facebook to acquire Instagram for $1 billion
USA Today—Maryland Mega Millions winner claims prize but wishes to remain anonymous. And no, it's not that crazy McDonald's lady who's been in the news all week.
CBS News—Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPhone and iPad
CNN.com—Microsoft buys AOL patents for $1 billion
MSNBC—Creator of the Commodore 64 passes away at 83
Fox News—NYC to replace pay phones with internet-connected smart screens


4.11.12
ABCnews.com—Simpsons creator Matt Groening reveals that it was Springfield, Oregon, that served as the inspiration for the fictional Springfield of the series
MSNBC—Microsoft announces that it will end support for Windows XP in two years
USA Today—Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen suspended after making controversial comments about Fidel Castro
Fox News—Santorum suspends his campaign but does not endorse Romney
CNN.com—Best Buy CEO resigns amid questions about his personal conduct
BBC News—Pentagon will award $2 million to whoever can build a robot that can use human tools


4.12.12
USA Today—George Zimmerman charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin
CBS News—Baylor basketball program put on probation for 3 years after investigation revealed recruiting violations
MSNBC—Green Day to release trilogy of albums in five months
ABCnews.com—Axl Rose declines to be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame with Guns N' Roses
Fox News—Amazon to allow users to trade in physical CDs for gift cards that can be used to purchase anything on the site
CNN.com—Spotify will now allow you to embed any song from their library into your site and stream it for free


4.13.12
BBC News—Barnes & Noble releases first e-ink tablet that does not need a separate light source
CNN.com—Google wants to split its stock, but the new shares will not come with additional votes, thereby making the founders more powerful
CBS News—Killer bees found for the first time in Tennessee
Fox News—Baboons demonstrate that they can differentiate between real words and random collections of letters
USA Today—Romney takes a swipe at Obama's Harvard degree, even though Romney himself spent more time at the institution than Obama did
MSNBC—New smartwatch raises over $2 million is just three days on Kickstarter


4.16.12
CNN.com—An American is tapped to be the next president of the World Bank
Fox News—Thousands of runners drop out of Boston Marathon due to heat
USA Today—Facebook slightly increases size of profile pics after Google+ did the same over the weekend
MSNBC—11 Secret Service agents suspended in wake of prostitution scandal
ABCnews.com—Aggressive swan blamed in man's drowning
CBS News—15 year old charged with murder after crashing van filled with illegal immigrants, killing nine people


4.17.12
MSNBC—Art collective bottles smell of new Macbook Pro
CNN.com—Strike conflict at Hostess could put an end to Twinkies
Fox News—Windows 8 to come in 3 varieties
USA Today—Maker of Angry Birds reportedly turned down $2 billion offer from Zynga
CBS News—Halo 4 to be released November 6
ABCnews.com—Tupac hologram performs with Snoop Dogg at Coachella


4.18.12
USA Today—Dick Clark dies at 82
CNN.com—Twitter announces that it will not pursue patent infringement lawsuits without the consent of the employees who invented the technology
MSNBC—Audi buys Ducati
CBS News—Netflix will premiere 10 new Arrested Development episodes at once later this year
Fox News—Bollywood actress kidnapped and beheaded by fellow actors in extortion plot
BBC News—3D printers could create customized drugs on-demand


4.19.12
L.A. Times—No Pulitzer Prize awarded for fiction for the first time since 1977
BBC News—Museum in Italy plans to burn three works of art a week to protest cutbacks in funding
USA Today—New York attorney general sues Sprint for $300 million for failing to pay sales tax
Fox News—Alabama bans Dirty Bastard beer because it finds the name offensive
MSNBC—New study finds no dark matter around the sun
ABCnews.com—Student who was paralyzed after being attacked by a bully at school wins $4.2 million settlement


4.20.12
BBC News—Mozilla says it will release a branded smartphone later this year
ABCnews.com—Rarest penny worth over $1 million
MSNBC—30 year old woman's habit of drinking 2 gallons of cola a day may have contributed to the heart attack that led to her death
CBS News—Next iPhone could be constructed of Liquidmetal
Fox News—Researchers say that robot prostitutes will be available by 2050
USA Today—Diablo III hosting open beta this weekend, three weeks ahead of the game's official release


4.23.12
USA Today—Half of all recent college grads are unemployed or underemployed
CNN.com—Army cancels Ted Nugent's concert at Fort Knox in the wake of his recent negative comments about Obama
CBS News—Apple may cease production of the 17 inch MacBook Pro
MSNBC—Instagram bans pro-anorexia photos and photos that show self-harm like cutting
Fox News—Florida man jailed after refusing to pay for a soda at McDonald's
BBC News—Philips uses Earth Day to introduce LED-based lightbulb that will last for 20 years


4.24.12
CNN.com—Facebook tops 900 million active users
USA Today—California sees trend of teenagers ingesting hand sanitizer to get drunk
MSNBC—Sinead O'Connor cancels rest of tour after having a psychological breakdown
Fox News—Company backed by James Cameron and Google founders wants to mine asteroids for mineral resources
CBS News—Hypersonic test vehicle achieves stable flight at speeds of up to Mach 20
BBC News—American Psycho being made into a stage musical


4.25.12
CBS News—Connecticut repeals the death penalty
USA Today—Burger King announces that all of its pork and eggs will come from free-range animals by 2017
CNN.com—Marine discharged after making comments critical of Obama on his Facebook page
Fox News—Google launches free online storage service
ABCnews.com—Single kidney transplanted twice in a medical first
MSNBC—Smokey Bear becomes mascot for next ISS mission


4.26.12
ABCnews.com—California nuclear power plant shut down after workers discover an infestation of jellyfish-like creatures
CNN.com—Senate passes plan intended to save the struggling USPS
CBS News—Nintendo reports first annual loss in the company's history
MSNBC—Middle school students files civil libel lawsuit against two classmates for creating a fake Facebook page in her name
USA Today—Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf designated a fugitive from justice by Texas
Fox News—Mutations of fish and shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico raise concerns about long term effects of BP spill


4.27.12
BBC News—Samsung overtakes Nokia to become world's biggest seller of mobile phones
Fox News—Boy field hockey player kicked of high school girls team for being too dominant a player
ABCnews.com—Hundreds of new cars purchased for Miami's municipal fleet sat unused in garages for years
CNN.com—California teacher sues Catholic school that fired her because it considered her IVF treatments contrary to church teachings
CBS News—200 Foxconn workers threaten suicide in protest over wages
USA Today—Unemployment is over 24% in Spain


4.30.12
USA Today—Microsoft investing $300 million in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader technology
CBS News—New WTC tower to be New York's tallest
CNN.com—Delta Air Lines buying its own oil refinery outside of Philadelphia in a novel attempt to reduce fuel costs
ABCnews.com—Australian billionaire says that he will build a high-tech replica of the Titanic which will have its maiden voyage in 2016
Fox News—Physicist thinks that Moore's Law will hit its breaking point in 10 years
MSNBC—Police nab serial burglar in part because of the earprints he left behind at crime scenes

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