daily links: april 2013

4.1.13
Fox News—Saudi man to be paralyzed as punishment for paralyzing someone else unless he can come up with a $266,000 payment to the victim as compensation
USA Today—21 year old cast member of MTV's Buckwild reality show found dead
NBC News—Waffle House employee who falsely reported a robbery as an April Fools' prank arrested
CBS News—Apple denied trademark for iPad Mini
ABCnews.com—Disabled soldier kicked out of mall for riding Segway
CNN.com—Ron Jeremy returns to work after major surgery to correct heart problems


4.2.13
ABCnews.com—Samoa Air to become first airline to charge passengers according to their weight
CNN.com—Season 3 premiere of Game of Thrones sets piracy download records
USA Today—Brood II of cicadas set to emerge along the east coast this summer
CBS News—Sequel to Finding Nemo coming in 2015. What Disney has done to Pixar since acquiring it does not bode well for the Star Wars franchise
Fox News—Judge rules that reselling digital song files is copyright infringement
NBC News—Los Angeles has reduced commute times during rush hour by synching thousands of traffic lights


4.3.13
NBC News—North Carolina lawmakers want to challenge the First Amendment and establish an official religion for the state
Fox News—AP to stop using the term "illegal immigrant" to describe foreign nationals who are in the US illegally
CBS News—Disney to shut down LucasArts and instead license future Star Wars video games to other game development studios
USA Today—Mark Cuban says he would consider drafting star female college player for the Dallas Mavericks
ABCnews.com—Jimmy Fallon set to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno next spring
BBC News—Mobile phone turns 40


4.4.13
USA Today—Roger Ebert dies at 70
Fox News—Flight diverted and family kicked off after complaining about the in-flight movie
CBS News—Fourth season of Arrested Development to be released on Netflix on May 26
NBC News—Florida court rules that illegal immigrant cannot be admitted to the bar and practice law
ABCnews.com—Facebook unveils new smartphone experience for Android
CNN.com—Founder of Frommer's travel guides buys back the brand from Google


4.5.13
CNN.com—Michelle Obama mistakenly refers to herself as a single mother
BBC News—Hacks against Bitcoin up as the virtual currency gains value
NBC News—White House confirms NASA plan to pull asteroid into near Earth orbit for further study
ABCnews.com—Iowa farmer uses robots and an iPhone to milk his herd of cows
Fox News—Cancer drugs could protect troops from bioweapons
CBS News—ITC rules that Samsung's text-selection mechanism on its smartphones infringes on Apple patent


4.8.13
BBC News—Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
NBC News—Next Xbox could be revealed in May
CNN.com—Former Apple retail exec ousted as head of JC Penney after just a year and a half
ABCnews.com—Television star Sara Gilbert announces her engagement to her girlfriend, singer Linda Perry
CBS News—Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies at 70
Fox News—Navy to start mounting lasers on ships in 2014 that are capable of destroying small ships and aircraft


4.9.13
CNN.com—Austin will be third city to get Google's ultra high speed Fiber network
ABCnews.com—California court rules that using a smartphone's mapping or GPS functions is the same as texting while driving
USA Today—New Batman Arkham title to launch this fall
NBC News—Philadelphia skyscraper transformed into giant game of Pong
CBS News—Some blame new type of pesticide for alarming decline in bee population
BBC News—Anti-testosterone drugs may help beat breast cancer


4.10.13
ABCnews.com—Civil War soldier's ring returned to his family nearly a century and a half after he lost it
USA Today—Goat's head delivered to Wrigley Field
CNN.com—IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dies at 87
NBC News—Mysterious stone structure found beneath Sea of Galilee
BBC News—High levels of lead found in imported rice in the US
CBS News—MTV cancels Buckwild reality show after death of cast member


4.11.13
Fox News—IRS claims it does not need a warrant to read your emails if they are more than 180 days old and they are stored in a service like Gmail
NBC News—Taco Bell says it plans to have healthier menu...by 2020
CNN.com—Cosmetics tycoon plans to donate Cubist collection worth over $1 billion to New York's Metropolitan Museum
ABCnews.com—Letter written by Francis Crick explaining the structure of DNA to his son sells for over $5 million at auction
USA Today—Man killed by beaver he was trying to photograph
CBS News—Dubai police add $550,000 Lamborghini to its fleet of squad cars


4.12.13
BBC News—Twitter may be preparing to launch music service
CNN.com—Sales of "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" skyrocket in Great Britain after the death of Margaret Thatcher
CBS News—14 year old boy from China becomes youngest ever to make the cut at the Masters
Fox News—Ohio day care worker charged with assault after biting five year old boy to teach him a lesson
ABCnews.com—1% of all Bitcoins owned by the Winklevoss brothers
NBC News—Kool-Aid revamping its classic mascot


4.15.13
USA Today—Wrigley Field to get $500 million renovation
Huffington Post—Man kills himself with a gun at an NRA-sponsored NASCAR event
CBS News—Colorado jury finds sporting equipment manufacturer Riddell negligent for failing to warn football players about the dangers of concussions
CNN.com—Adam Scott becomes first Australian to win the Masters
NBC News—Dish offers to buy Sprint for $25 billion
Fox News—Judge holds himself in contempt for disrupting his own courtroom when his cell phone interrupted a hearing


4.16.13
ABCnews.com—Three killed and dozens injured after two bombs explode near finish line of Boston Marathon
NBC News—Facebook to start sending video ads to your feed this summer
Fox News—Google reveals tech specs for Glass
USA Today—GM and Ford partnering to build transmissions for upcoming models
CNN.com—Parts of Joshua Tree National Park closed after an outbreak of graffiti fueled by social media postings
CBS News—Giant snails invade south Florida


4.17.13
ABCnews.com—Mississippi man arrested on suspicion of sending ricin-tainted letters to government officials
USA Today—Former judge and his wife arrested in Texas DA murders
BBC News—Google tells developers that they will not be able to display ads on the Glass platform
NBC News—College students in Iceland build app to help keep people from accidentally dating their cousins
Fox News—First known alcohol-free bar set to open in Chicago
CNN.com—Apple stock hits its lowest point in the past year


4.18.13
CBS News—Disney plans to release a new Star Wars flim each year starting in 2015
CNN.com—FBI releases images of Boston Marathon bombing suspects
ABCnews.com—Texas schoolteacher says she cannot be guilty of improperly touching a student because she is too prejudiced to touch black people
Fox News—Exxon regains world's most valuable company title from Apple after the tech company suffers sustained share price drop
BBC News—Researchers say they have invented a battery that takes up less space and recharges faster than current technology
USA Today—NFL releases 2013 schedule


4.23.13
CNN.com—Captured Boston Marathon suspect allegedly gives details to investigators
NBC News—Bloomberg wants to ban sales of cigarettes in NYC to anyone under 21
Fox News—Volkswagen announces the iBeetle, a car that fully integrates with your iPhone
BBC News—First new single from Daft Punk in eight years breaks Spotify record
CBS News—Reese Witherspoon arrested for disorderly conduct in Atlanta
USA Today—Facebook planning $1 billion data center in Iowa


4.24.13
CBS News—Fake tweet from hacked AP Twitter feeds sends stocks tumbling
ABCnews.com—Girl Scouts to add Video Game Designer patch
Fox News—Florida considering bill that would end lifelong alimony payments
NBC News—Apple increases its dividend to shareholders
USA Today—Braves star Jason Heyward out indefinitely after apendectomy
CNN.com—Three Doors Down bassist charged with vehicular homicide


4.25.13
ABCnews.com—Redesigned $100 bill to begin circulating this fall
CBS News—Microsoft to reveal new Xbox on May 21
NBC News—Zach Braff using Kickstarter to fund sequel to Garden State
USA Today—Obama says that if either of his daughters ever get a tattoo, he and Michelle will get the same tattoo in the same place
Fox News—Ben Affleck to get honorary doctorate from Brown
BBC News—Futurama canceled by Comedy Central after being resurrected in 2010, but show's creators hope it will be picked up by yet another network


4.26.13
ABCnews.com—Congress passes bill to end sequester spending rules for FAA in the face of complaints from air travelers
BBC News—Earth's core could be as hot as the surface of the sun
CBS News—Amazon making Apple TV competitor
NBC News—George Jones dies at 81
Fox News—Rare 1913 nickel sells for over $3 million at auction
USA Today—Retired Hall of Fame player Barry Sanders to be featured on next Madden cover


4.29.13
USA Today—Active NBA player Jason Collins announces that he is gay
ABCnews.com—Mother forced her 14 year old daughter to get pregnant
BBC News—EU to ban pesticides linked to bee deaths
Fox News—Computer glitch causes hundreds of cell doors at Maryland jail to open simultaneously
NBC News—Next Xbox will be powered by a slimmed down version of Windows 8
CBS News—S&P 500 closes at new high


4.30.13
Fox News—Man claims he lost his life savings at a carnival game
CBS News—iOS 7 may be the first major visual overhaul for Apple's groundbreaking mobile operating system since its debut
NBC News—Mysterious metallic spheres found in ancient temple
ABCnews.com—California woman accused of putting poisoned bottles of orange juice in Starbucks
CNN.com—Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer extends maternity and paternity leave at the tech company
USA Today—Second round QB draft pick Geno Smith fires his agents because he thinks he should have been drafted higher

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