daily links: july 2013

7.1.13
Fox News—Student loan interest rates double after congress fails to act
CBS News—19 firefighters killed battling Arizona wildfire
BBC News—Yahoo shutters AltaVista search engine
USA Today—Apple files request to trademark iWatch
CNN.com—Performer killed at Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas
NBC News—American Idol winner Reuben Studdard to compete on The Biggest Loser


7.2.13
Fox News—Obama delays major provision of his healthcare reform law by a year
USA Today—Sherriff who runs the jail where Aaron Hernandez is incarcerated says he will prevent the former football star from getting married while in custody
CBS News—Italian neuroscientist wants to transplant a human head onto a new body
CNN.com—Former Tiffany's executive accused of stealing more than $1 million in jewelry
NBC News—Head of Microsoft's Xbox division leaving to run Zynga
ABCnews.com—Pebble smartwatch soon to be on sale in retail outlets


7.3.13
BBC News—Motorhead cancel tour due to frontman Lemmy's ill health
CNN.com—Two HIV positive men who received bone marrow translants now have no traces of the virus in their systems
CBS News—Inventor of the computer mouse dies at 88
USA Today—Princeton researchers create bionic ear
NBC News—Head of Microsoft's Xbox division leaving to run Zynga
Fox News—Body hacker has magnets implanted in his ears to act a invisible headphones


7.8.13
USA Today—Soccer referee in Brazil who stabbed and killed a player during a game is then dismembered and beheaded by spectators
BBC News—World of Warcraft considering allowing players to use real money to purchase in-game items
CBS News—Former NFL player whose career was cut short by an injury sues an opposing team's defensive coordinator, claiming that the coach was responsible for the illegal hit that ended his playing days
ABCnews.com—Lauryn Hill starts prison sentence for tax evasion
CNN.com—Barnes & Noble CEO resigns
NBC News—EA to remove Aaron Hernandez from its NCAA and NFL football video games


7.9.13
CNN.com—New Florida law meant to combat internet gambling may have accidentally outlawed all computers and smartphones
USA Today—Kroger buys Harris Teeter for $2.4 billion
ABCnews.com—Twinkies to return with longer shelf life than before
BBC News—Scientists propose new model for the Earth's core
Fox News—Ball State under scrutiny for hiring professor who is a proponent of intelligent design
CBC News—Elizabeth Hasselbeck leaving The View to return to her natural habitat at Fox News


7.10.13
Fox News—Alabama man robs a bank in order to be incarcerated to avoid being homeless
NBC News—Court finds Apple guilty of conspiring to raise ebook prices
CNN.com—Google has major outage
CBS News—Singer Randy Travis suffers stroke while hospitalized for congestive heart failure caused by a virus
USA Today—San Francisco Giants pitcher charged with lewd conduct in Las Vegas
ABCnews.com—Jay-Z performs track from his new album for six hours straight at NYC art gallery


7.11.13
CNN.com—Microsoft announces major reorganization
CBS News—Congressional bill would create US National Parks out of the Apollo landing sites on the moon
NBC News—Team wins $250,000 prize for human-powered helicopter
BBC News—Next Mars rover to focus on finding evidence of life on the Red Planet
ABCnews.com—7-Eleven offering free Slurpees on 7/11
Fox News—PC World ceasing to exist in magazine form


7.12.13
USA Today—Hulu owners announce that the company is no longer for sale and that they will inject more cash into the streaming video company instead
Fox News—Skyfall director Sam Mendes signs on to helm another Bond film
ABCnews.com—Amazon to get into the comic book publishing business
NBC News—1 in 10 Americans admit to using their mobile phones while having sex
CNN.com—Nokia's new phone includes 41 megapixel camera
CBS News—Leah Remini breaks with the Church of Scientology


7.15.13
CNN.com—George Zimmerman found not guilty in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager
ABCnews.com—FDA approves brain scan as a way to diagnose ADHD in children
Fox News—J.K. Rowling revealed to be the author of a crime novel for which she invented a male pen name
USA Today—Deaf patrons suing Starbucks for rudeness
NBC News—Motorcycle racer dies in crash after reaching a speed of 285 mph
CBS News—Experiement seems to indicate that some worms can retain memory even after being decapitated


7.16.13
NBC News—Various groups suing government to put a stop to secret NSA surveillance programs
CNN.com—Stevie Wonder boycotts Florida after Trayvon Martin verdict
CBS News—New glasses allow wearers to adjust their prescription on the fly
USA Today—American Dad moving to TBS for its 11th season in 2014
Fox News—Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter, to run for Senate in Montana next year
ABCnews.com—Microsoft cuts price of Surface tablet by $150 after the device fails to make inroads against Apple's iPad


7.17.13
CBS News—Detroit files for bankruptcy
Fox News—Key witness in Whitey Bulger trial found dead
NBC News—Senator suggests boycotting Russian Olympic games if Russia offers Snowden asylum
CNN.com—Netflix-produced shows nominated for 14 Emmys
BBC News—Swedish engineer invents device that turns sweat into drinkable water
USA Today—NBA owners approve Charlotte's name change back to the Hornets


7.18.13
CNN.com—Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk wants to revolutionize trains as well
Fox News—Baseball commissioner Bud Selig reveals that he has never sent an email
NBC News—Panasonic introduces new camera with 60x optical zoom
CBS News—Ford offers free recalibrations to improve fuel economy on its hybrid models
ABCnews.com—Georgia woman dies from fire ant sting
USA Today—NC legislature moves to seize control of Charlotte's airport


7.19.13
CNN.com—Judge rejects Detroit's attempt to file for bankruptcy
Fox News—Asiana passenger survived crash only to be killed by rescue vehicle as it arrived on the scene
NBC News—Professional gamers awarded athletic visas by US Immigration
CBS News—Hubble telescope finds new moon orbiting Neptune
USA Today—Michael Moore getting divorced
ABCnew.com—Class action lawsuit filed against Vitaminwater for deceptive labeling


7.22.13
Fox News—Voluteer group composed of ordinary citizens now authorized to issue parking citations in Malibu
CNN.com—Many telephone lines destroyed by Sandy will never be restored
CBS News—Broncos' Von Miller to be suspended for four games for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy
USA Today—Duchess Kate gives birth to baby boy
BBC News—Ubuntu wants to use crowdfunding to pay for the development of its own smartphone
NBC News—Judge blocks North Dakota's anti-abortion law, one of the most restrictive in the country


7.23.13
ABCnews.com—Man sues over ticket he received for warning other drivers of a speed trap
CBS News—Cyclist who hit and killed a pedestrian with his bike pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter
Fox News—Town in Norway installs giant mirrors on nearby mountains to avoid five months of darkness
CNN.com—Amanda Bynes detained by police and given involuntary mental evaluation
NBC News—Baseball star Ryan Braun suspended for the remainder of the season for using performance enhancing drugs
BBC News—Famed Star Wars set in Tunisia being engulfed by sand dunes


7.24.13
BBC News—Jane Austen to be featured on new £10 note
NBC News—Swarm of bees delays US Airways flight for three hours
USA Today—USPS may eliminate door-to-door service
ABCnews.com—Passenger train derails in Spain, killing more than 50
CNN.com—Google introduces Chromecast, a $35 device that allows you to stream content from your mobile device to your tv
CBS News—Royal baby name revealed: George Alexander Louis


7.25.13
CNN.com—Madison Square Garden given 10 years to find a new home
ABCnews.com—Zonkey!
Fox News—Scientists claim to be able to implant false memories in mice
CBS News—Surveillance photos show Aaron Hernandez holding a gun shortly after the man he is accused of killing was shot
NBC News—Taylor Swift biggest fan contest canceled after 39 year old man wins
USA Today—Braves pitcher Tim Hudson out for the rest of the season after his ankle is broken by runner


7.26.13
CBS News—After a hot July, the North Pole is now covered by water instead of ice
ABCnews.com—NFL player fires his agent after he loses $2 million of his expected $2.9 million salary for skipping offseason workouts
CNN.com—Lincoln Memorial vandalized
NBC News—Simpons co-creator Sam Simon, who is dying of cancer, vows to donate his entire fortune to charity
Fox News—Sharknado getting a theater release and a sequel
USA Today—Activision buys back shares from parent company Vivendi and becomes an indepedent company again


7.29.13
ABCnews.com—Woman wins $18 million judgment against Equifax after trying to get errors on her credit report fixed for two years
Fox News—New video purports to show a sasquatch
BBC News—John Williams will score the upcoming Star Wars sequels
CNN.com—New Pope signals more openess to gays and lesbians
USA Today—Former major league pitcher drowns in Arizona lake
CBS News—BMW shows off its first electric car


7.30.13
CNN.com—Bradley Manning convicted on espionage charges but acquitted of "aiding the enemy"
ABCnews.com—Study finds that only 28% of millionaires think they are rich
CBS News—Court strikes down NYC law banning sodas over 16 ounces
Fox News—Sony and Panasonic teaming to create Blu-ray successor
USA Today—Man who scored first NBA basket dies at 94
NBC News—Small liberal arts college in Kentucky receives $250 million gift


7.31.13
Fox News—Microsoft reveals that it spent more on advertising for its Surface tablet than the tablet actually made in revenue
BBC News—New antiobiotic discovered in ocean mud
NBC News—New Edward Snowden leak claims that the NSA tracks all internet conversations. The real news here: this isn't new at all and has been going on for pretty much as long as there's been an internet.
USA Today—Bioshock Infinite expansion revealed
CBS News—Showtime considering Dexter spinoff
CNN.com—Google teaming with Starbucks to increase the WiFi speed at Starbucks stores up to 10 times faster

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