daily links: march 2014

3.3.14
NBC News—Bidder who set record price for Pink Star diamond defaults on his payment of $83 million
USA Today—Bill Gates is once again the richest person in the world
CNN.com—Man forfeits $80,000 legal settlement because of daughter's Facebook post
CBS News—Minecraft creators working with Warner Brothers on movie about the popular game
Fox News—Twitter installing log cabins from the 1800s in its employee cafeteria
BBC News—Scientists bring 30,000 year old virus back to life


3.4.14
Fox News—Disney reaches content deal with Dish Network
NBC News—Facebook to purchase drone maker for $60 million
CBS News—Apple's CFO retiring
ABCnews.com—Florida couple abandon their children in the woods
USA Today—Los Angeles will regulate e-cigarettes as if they were tobacco products
CNN.com—Teenage daughter who moved out of her parents' home is suing them for her private school tuition


3.5.14
CNN.com—College Board announces major overhaul to the SAT starting in 2016
USA Today—Judge rules that upskirt photos taken in public on the subway are not illegal
Fox News—CEO of Bitcoin exchange found dead in her apartment of apparent suicide
NBC News—Obama proposes phasing out pennies and nickels or at least making them out of cheaper materials
CBS News—Lab-engineered immune cells appear to block HIV
ABCnews.com—Class action lawsuit filed against makers of flushable wipes


3.6.14
NBC News—Man sues casino after he loses $500,000 while drunk
USA Today—Johnny Manziel signs multiyear deal with Nike
Fox News—Girl Scouts to end their partnership with Barbie
CBS News—Newsweek claims to have uncovered the identity of Bitcoin's creator
CNN.com—Twitter pans pornographic videos on Vine
ABCnews.com—Chrysler order rare, one-of-a-kind Viper destroyed


3.7.14
ABCnews.com—Woman wins $2 million lotttery using numbers found in fortune cookie
Fox News—Ted Turner hospitalized
USA Today—Edward Snowden to speak at SXSW
CNN.com—Grocery store chains Safeway and Albertsons to merge
CBS News—Fewer students than ever able to attend their first-choice colleges after being admitted
NBC News—Bike used in Pee Wee's Big Adventure sells for $36,000


3.10.14
ABCnews.com—Man convicted of murdering seven people awarded half a million dollars in a civil lawsuit against a police officer who punched him
USA Today—Newsweek relaunches print edition after a year and a half hiatus
CNN.com—Sbarro files for bankruptcy
Fox News—Neil Young using Kickstarter to raise money to develop hi-fi portable music player
CBS News—Google to release SDK for Android wearable devices
NBC News—Swatch sues Target over watch designs


3.11.14
NBC News—Men's Wearhouse to buy rival Jos. A. Bank for $1.8 billion
Fox News—Embattled Turkish Prime Minister threatens to ban Facebook and YouTube
ABCnews.com—FDA approves electrified headband used for the prevention of migraines
CBS News—Apple releases iOS 7.1
CNN.com—Netflix/Comcast deal last month resulted in faster service for customers
USA Today—Blizzard officially launches Hearthstone, and online card-based game similar to Magic: The Gathering


3.12.14
CBS News—Obama pushes for expansion of overtime benefits
CNN.com—Manson Family member granted parole
Fox News—Judge Judy sues Connecticut lawyer claiming he improperly used her image to suggest that she endorsed his firm
NBC News—Seattle police authorized to start using facial recognition software
ABCnews.com—San Francisco mint to produce the United States' first curved coin
USA Today—Jeopardy champ whose playstyle angered many longtime fans loses after his 12th match


3.13.14
NBC News—Amazon raises price of Prime membership from $79 to $99 a year
CNN.com—Car driven by drunk driver plows into crowd at SXSW, killing 2 and injuring more than 20
CBS News—Neil Young Kickstarter for a high-quality music player raises more than $2 million in its 24 hours
Fox News—Father shoots and kills teenage boy he found in bed with his teenage daughter
USA Today—Criminals using drones to smuggle contraband into prisons
ABCnews.com—Hal Douglas, man who narrated thousands of film trailers, dies at 89


3.14.14
NBC News—Some colleges offering to pay students to take a gap year
Fox News—Paid Samsung endorser LeBron James tweets that his Samsung phone erased all his data, then deletes the tweet
CNN.com—Sam Adams withdrawing its sponsorship of Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade because gay and lesbian groups are not allowed to participate
USA Today—Phil Jackson signs on as Knicks front office manager
ABCnews.com—Judge leaves Pandora royalty rate that it must pay to artists unchanged after music publishing firm filed suit to have it increased
CBS News—Quiznos files for bankruptcy


3.17.14
Fox News—Indianapolis Colts owner arrested for DWI
CNN.com—TV pitchman headed to jail after violating order preventing him from making misleading infomercials
BBC News—Drummer for legendary punk band the Stooges dies at 64
ABCnews.com—Fashion designer girlfriend of Mick Jagger found dead of apparent suicide
CBS News—Pennsylvania high school teacher accused of having sex with one of her male students
USA Today—Microsoft releases its Evernote competitor, OneNote, for free, including a version for Macs


3.18.14
NBC News—Microsoft supposedly set to release Office for iPad
Fox News—Man arrested for talking longer than his allotted three minutes at a town hall meeting
ABCnews.com—3200 year old skeletal remains contain oldest evidence of cancer in humans
CBS News—The NFL wants M.I.A. to pay a $16 million fine for giving the finger on live tv at the Super Bowl
USA Today—Courtney Love tweets satellite photo that she believes shows an oil slick and plane wreckage where the missing Malaysian Air flight last had radar contact
CNN.com—Apple introduces cheaper iPhone 5c


3.19.14
CBS News—Faberge egg worth millions discovered at flea market in the midwest
USA Today—Man's gun tattoo brings SWAT team to his house
NBC News—Disney CEO reveals that next Star Wars movie is set 30 years after Return of the Jedi
Fox News—Sony introduces virtual reality headset for the PS4
CNN.com—Flappy Bird creator will make the app available for purchase again, but not in the near future
ABCnews.com—Walmart to start buying and selling used video games


3.20.14
CBS News—Graphene contact lenses could give humans infrared vision
ABCnews.com—Man discovers winning lottery ticket worth $1 million while cleaning out his wallet
USA Today—Amazon likely to release its own video streaming device in April
CNN.com—Smartwatch maker Pebble reveals that it sold 400,000 devices in its first year of business
Fox News—Man sues OkCupid after being conned out of $70,000 by a woman he met on the site
NBC News—MST3K crew returning to make fun of National Geographic specials


3.21.14
USA Today—Mercer knocks out Duke in first round of NCAA tournament
CNN.com—Microsoft admits to breaking into an email account on its Hotmail service and defends its right to do so again in the future
ABCnews.com—All potential $1 billion brackets busted after first day of NCAA tournament
CBS News—Google enhances encryption technology on Gmail
Fox News—Woman dies after injecting vaseline into her breasts in an apparent attempt to make them larger
NBC News—Chewing gum consumption on the decline


3.24.14
NBC News—Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White tries to get out of bet he made on Twitter that Mercer wouldn't beat Duke in the first round of the NCAA tournament
USA Today—Just Born candy company announces that a new Peeps variation, Peeps Minis, will be available year round and not just for Easter
BBC News—Kate Bush announces first live shows in 35 years
CNN.com—Fox announces full slate of Marvel franchise films that will be released over the next four years
CBS News—Oprah getting branded chai drink at Starbucks
Fox News—E-Trade getting rid of its talking baby advertising spokesman


3.25.14
CNN.com—Russia kicked out of G8
USA Today—Gwar frontman dies at age 50
CBS News—Malaysian prime minister announces that missing flight 370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean
ABCnews.com—Judge Joe Brown jailed for contempt of court in Tennessee
Fox News—Oklahoma Girl Scout sells over 18,000 boxes in seven weeks and breaks decades-old sales record
NBC News—Oakley and Ray-Ban to design new styles for Google Glass


3.26.14
USA Today—Ravens coach John Harbaugh joins Bill Belichick in call for more use of instant replay during NFL games
CNN.com—Facebook buying virtual reality firm Oculus for $2 billion
NBC News—Goal post dunks after touchdowns will incur a penalty in the NFL next year
ABCnews.com—IRS plans to tax Bitcoins as if they are property
CBS News—Parents pull their 8 year old daughter from a Christian school after administrators said she wasn't feminine enough for the biblical lifestyle
Fox News—Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow separating after 11 years of marriage


3.27.14
NBC News—Wu-Tang Clan will sell only one copy of its new 31 track album after a listening tour at museums around the world
USA Today—NFL owners approve several new rules that will go into effect next season
CNN.com—Mayor of Charlotte, NC, accused of bribery and extortion
ABCnews.com—Indiana Jones producers consider rebooting the franchise without Harrison Ford
CBS News—P. Diddy changing his name back to Puff Daddy
BBC News—Intel buys fitness tracking firm


3.28.14
BBC News—Obamacare signups top 6 million
Fox News—Tigers give Miguel Cabrera an 8 year extension and make his current deal worth nearly $300 million, the largest in MLB history
USA Today—Microsoft releases Office for iPad
CNN.com—Astronomers discover asteroid with rings
NBC News—Amazon considering free streaming television service
ABCnews.com—College student seeking internship creates resume out of Legos


3.31.14
CNN.com—US to require all new cars to have backup cameras by 2018
USA Today—Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez becomes first MLB coach to challenge a call and have it reversed using the league's new instant replay rules
CBS News—du Pont heir convicted of raping his three year old daughter is spared prison because he wouldn't "fare well" in that environment
ABCnews.com—Roseanne star Sarah Gilbert marries songwriter Linda Perry
Fox News—OkCupid calls for boycott of Mozilla due to CEO's opposition to gay marriage
NBC News—Man swept out to sea during baptism ceremony in the ocean

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