daily links: february 2014

2.3.14
USA Today—Seattle crushes Denver 43-8 for first Super Bowl win in Seahawks franchise history
CNN.com—Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead of apparent heroin overdose
Fox News—Punxsutawny Phil predicts six more weeks of winter
ABCnews.com—NASA sued for failing to further investigate mysterious rock found on the surface of Mars
NBC News—Actor Maximilian Schell dies at 83
CBS News—Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling says if she had to do it again, she may not have paired Ron and Hermione


2.4.14
Fox News—European cars may soon be required to have a kill switch that can be activated by police
CBS News—Doritos Super Bowl ad was created by amateur for only $300, and it nets him a $1 million payday
ABCnews.com—Furniture store owner will refund $7 million to customers after Seahawks win Super Bowl
CNN.com—High school administrator accused of sexual abuse by former student in YouTube video is arrested
NBC News—This year's Super Bowl was most watched program in television history
USA Today—Pebble launches app store for its smartwatch


2.5.14
CNN.com—CVS announces that it will no longer sell tobacco products
Fox News—American Idol star Clay Aiken to run for Congress in North Carolina
CBS News—George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, will fight DMX in a celebrity boxing match
NBC News—Coca Cola plans to let consumers make the company's products at home using new single-serve technology for cold drinks
USA Today—Former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling reveals that he has cancer
BBC News—Twitter reports $650 million loss for 2013


2.6.14
ABCnews.com—Russian official accidentally reveals that visitors to Sochi are being spied on in their hotel showers
Fox News—Mars Rover takes picture of Earth from the Red Planet
NBC News—Sony getting out of the e-reader business
CNN.com—Apple drops Bitcoin app from its iOS app store
CBS News—Jay Leno films his last show as host of The Tonight Show. Of course, he's said that before...
USA Today—Subway to remove industrial chemical from bread recipe


2.7.14
NBC News—800,000 year old human footprints discovered in Britain
CNN.com—Leonard Nimoy reveals that he has lung disease
Fox News—NYPD considering equipping officers with Google Glass
CBS News—Woody Allen denies new allegation that he abused adopted daughter 20 years ago when she was 7 years old
USA Today—Apple buys back $14 billion of its shares
ABCnews.com—New Edward Snowden leak reveals that British intelligence agency has also been targeting Anonymous


2.10.14
CBS News—Top college prospect who will enter NFL draft this spring reveals that he is gay
ABCnews.com—Two recent murders in Virginia could point to serial killer
NBC News—Mark Zuckerberg and his wife were America's most generous philanthropists in 2013
BBC News—Politicians urge Washington Redskins to change their name
USA Today—Flappy Bird creator pulls popular game from Apple's app store, says it will not be updated or re-released
CNN.com—Investor Carl Icahn drops shareholder push for Apple to spend more of its cash reserves buying back its own stock


2.11.14
CNN.com—Shirley Temple dies at 85
USA Today—Banking firm Barclay's cuts 12,000 jobs while increasing bonuses to executives by 10%
Fox News—Up to 18 patients at NC hospital may have been exposed to Mad Cow disease due to surgical equipment that had not been properly sterilized
CBS News—Danish zoo kills healthy giraffe and feeds the meet to its lions
NBC News—Beer fridge for in Canadian athletes at this year's Olympics requires a Canadian passport to open
ABCnews.com—Study finds that executed inmates who mainatined their innocence until the end were almost three times more likely to reject a special feast for their final meal


2.12.14
USA Today—Mozilla to start integrating ads into Firefox browser
NBC News—Virgin Atlantic to speed up check-in times using Google Glass
Fox News—Federal judge rules that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states
ABCnews.com—Google wins bid to renovate giant hangar, but no one knows what they plan to do with it
CNN.com—Twitter testing Facebook-like profile pages
CBS News—Sting's musical The Last Ship headed for Broadway


2.13.14
USA Today—Comcast reaches agreement to buy Time-Waner for $45 billion
CNN.com—Scotland may once again be independent from England
Fox News—Alabama bill would require teachers to open the school day by reading prayers to their classes
NBC News—Derek Jeter's announcement that he will retire after the 2014 season spikes Yankees ticket prices
CBS News—Facebook introduces new terms for users to identify themselves with
ABCnews.com—Federal appeals court throws out California's rules about concealed weapons


2.14.14
NBC News—Scientists create pizza MRE that will last for three years
BBC News—Hackers steal $2.7 million in Bitcoins from Silk Road web site
Fox News—Man starts Kickstarter campaign to fund his purchase of a burrito
CBS News—Jos. A. Bank buying Eddie Bauer for $825 million
USA Today—IRS documents reveal that NFL commissioner made over $44 million in 2012
CNN.com—Netflix acquires the rights to air Star Wars animated series, including one new season


2.17.14
USA Today—Ravens running back Ray Rice arrested after arguing with his fiance in an Atlantic City casino
CNN.com—Woman suspected of using Craigslist to lure a man to his death claims to have killed more than 20 others
Fox News—The Simpsons will air Lego episode for its landmark 550th show
CBS News—Actress Ellen Page reveals that she is gay. I actually thought we knew that already, but okay.
NBC News—Silicon Valley venture capitalist says that the rich should have a bigger say in elections, getting a vote for every dollar they pay in taxes. Well, I guess that might actually get some of them to pay some taxes...
ABCnews.com—Survey finds that 25% of Americans think the sun revolves around the Earth, and fewer than half believe in evolution


2.18.14
NBC News—California investing millions in desalination technology
BBC News—New genetically modified potatoes are blight-resistant
Fox News—Senator proposes $500 savings accounts for all newborns funded by the government
CNN.com—Woman jailed for failing to return VHS movie rental from 2005
CBS News—Vase by dissident artist Ai Weiwei worth $1 million smashed at Miami art museum
USA Today—Nike to introduce self-tying laces as shown in Back to the Future II


2.19.14
CBS News—New study questions value of college entrance exams
ABCnews.com—Christie aide refusing to comply with subpoena in bridge shutdown investigation
Fox News—Founding member of Devo dies at 61
USA Today—Rumors of potential acquisition by Apple send Tesla shares to their highest value ever
CNN.com—Candy Crush maker files for IPO
BBC News—Scientists exploring the possibility of building a particle accelerator four times of the size of the Large Hadron Collider


2.20.14
Fox News—Georgia approves specialty license plate that features the Confederate flag
ABCnews.com—Venture capitalist launches ballot initiative to split California into six states
CNN.com—Facebook buys messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. Yeah, with a "b".
CBS News—Billionaire donor gives $150 million to Harvard, the largest gift in the school's history
USA Today—FCC working on new net neutrality rules after previous version was shot down by the courts
NBC News—Google looking to expand its Fiber high speed internet service to 34 additional cities


2.21.14
BBC News—Online gaming company offers bounty for the identification of the hackers who took their servers offline
Fox News—US military bans American flags that are made in China
CBS News—Milk prices headed for record high
USA Today—New mayor of NYC wants to get rid of horse drawn carriages
ABCnews.com—Google issues guide on how not to be a "Glasshole"
CNN.com—Winklevoss twins launch Bitcoin price tracking site


2.24.14
CBS News—Fragment of crystal found on sheep ranch is 4.4 billion years old and is the oldest piece of Earth so far discovered
CNN.com—Harold Ramis, star of Stripes and Ghostbusters, dies at 69
ABCnews.com—Moviefone to end its telephone service, although it will live on as an app and on the web
NBC News—Taco Bell rolls out breakfast menu, including a waffle taco
Fox News—Piers Morgan out at CNN
USA Today—Netflix and Comcast reach agreement that should speed up service for Netflix customers


2.25.14
USA Today—Brooklyn Nets sign Jason Collins, making him the first openly gay player to take the court in the NBA
CNN.com—Major Bitcoin exchange site is taken offline
Fox News—Colorado Girl Scouts banned from selling their cookies outside of marijuana stores
ABCnews.com—14 year old 8th grader commits to play football for LSU
CBS News—"Got Milk?" ad campaign to end after 20 years
NBC News—US government to spend $3 million on planting food sources for ailing honeybee population


2.26.14
USA Today—Republican governor of Arizona vetoes bill that would have allowed discrimination against gays
CNN.com—Tesla issuing bond to raise $1.6 billion in order to build factory that will produce electic vehicles for the mass market
ABCnews.com—Messaging service WhatsApp, recently purchased by Facebook for $19 billion, to add free voice calls
Fox News—Federal judge strikes down Texas ban on gay marriage
NBC News—3D tattoos are latest trend
CBS News—For-profit college system ITT sued by consumer watchdog group for pushing students into high-interest private student loans


2.27.14
USA Today—Quiznos preparing to file for bankruptcy
ABCnews.com—Nutrition labels getting first major makeover in more than two decades
CNN.com—American Airlines to stop giving discounts for fliers traveling to funerals
Fox News—More and more communities getting rid of red light cameras
NBC News—Copy of Mein Kampf signed by Hitler sells for almost $65,000 at auction
CBS News—Texas man dies after re-entering a burning house to retrive his phone


2.28.14
CNN.com—Godfather of Helvetica typeface dies at 84
Fox News—Microsoft considering making Windows 8.1 free in order to speed adoption of the OS
CBS News—Netflix hacks Fitbit devices to track when you fall asleep so it can pause the video you are watching
ABCnews.com—Reebok unveils new triangle-shaped logo
NBC News—Food delivery company GrubHub to file for IPO
USA Today—Amazon considering streaming music service

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