daily links: april 2014

4.1.14
BBC News—Carnegie Mellon University wins $1.5 billion patent suit against computer chip maker
USA Today—Boston Marathon bombing victim sues Glenn Beck after the talk radio host said he was the money man behind the plot
CNN.com—Gmail turns 10
CBS News—Kanye West cancels tour to finish work on a new album
Fox News—Norman Rockwell painting of Red Sox players expected to fetch tens of millions at auction
NBC News—Video game listings on Amazon now include Metacritic ratiings


4.2.14
ABCnews.com—Shooting at Ft. Hood leaves four dead, including the shooter
CNN.com—Amazon releases Fire TV, a streaming media and gaming device meant to compete with Apple TV
Fox News—Air Force's X-37B space plane breaks record for number of days in orbit
CBS News—New Michael Jackson album to be released in May
BBC News—Microsoft introduces Cortana, a rival to Apple's Siri
NBC News—New reversible USB plug revealed


4.3.14
CNN.com—Mozilla's CEO resigns after ten days on the job after being criticized for his donation to an anti-same sex marriage group
Fox News—David Letterman announces that he will retire in 2015
ABCnews.com—Banana Republic sued for deceptive discount signs
CBS News—Body of suicide victim mistaken for mannequin that was part of perceived April Fools' prank
NBC News—iOS 8 to be released on June 2, coinciding with Apple's developers conference
BBC News—There are stories about badger culling on the BBC News site ALL THE TIME, and here's one of them. This seems to be a really big deal to the British for reasons that I still don't comprehend..


4.4.14
CNN.com—Mozilla's CEO resigns after ten days on the job after being criticized for his donation to an anti-same sex marriage group
Fox News—David Letterman announces that he will retire in 2015
ABCnews.com—Banana Republic sued for deceptive discount signs
CBS News—Body of suicide victim mistaken for mannequin that was part of perceived April Fools' prank
NBC News—iOS 8 to be released on June 2, coinciding with Apple's developers conference
BBC News—There are stories about badger culling on the BBC News site ALL THE TIME, and here's one of them. This seems to be a really big deal to the British for reasons that I still don't comprehend..


4.7.14
CBS News—Captain America sequel breaks April box office record and nabs $96 million in its first weekend of release
CNN.com—An ocean at least as large as Lake Superior discovered beneath the ice on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons
USA Today—60 Minutes admits to putting fake engine sound over footage of a Tesla
NBC News—Amazon Dash lets you add household items to your Fresh basket without a mobile phone
Fox News—Bakery that created trendy cronut shut down by health department after mouse infestation
ABCnews.com—NASA asking the internet to help it choose its next spacesuit design


4.8.14
ABCnews.com—Cleveland Indians fans tearing logos off Indians apparel in support of Native Americans
CBS News—US Navy has electromagnetic rail gun that can shoot projectiles over 100 miles at Mach 7
CNN.com—HBO Go crashes during Game of Thrones season 4 premiere
NBC News—Spider infestations prompt Mazda recall
Fox News—Mickey Rooney dies at 93
USA Today—Five year old discovers Xbox One security flaw


4.9.14
ABCnews.com—UMass sophomore starter reveals he is gay, becoming the first openly gay D1 basketball player
CNN.com—Teen attacks 21 people at his high school with kitchen knives
Fox News—Former interns for Taco Bell's ad agency claim they have proof that Doritos Locos taco shells were their idea
NBC News—Yale student with low BMI claims she was told to gain weight or leave school
BBC News—HBO confirms that it has renewed Game of Thrones for seasons 5 and 6
USA Today—Toyota recalls over 6 million vehicles


4.10.14
CNN.com—Stehpen Colbert to take over The Late Show when David Letterman retires in 2015
Fox News—Samsung sues newspaper after it negatively reviewed its Galaxy S5 smartphone
CBS News—IOC warns Brazil that it could lose the 2016 Olympics
ABCnews.com—French IT workers earn the right to unplug from their jobs during their off hours
NBC News—Scientists develop new method for making ethanol without using corn or other food crops
USA Today—49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick under investigation for alleged sexual assualt


4.11.14
NBC News—Geologists find link between fracking and seismic activity
USA Today—Google to make Glass available for purchase by the general public for a single day
Fox News—Facebook to remove chat from its mobile app and make it a separate download
ABCnews.com—Dave Grohl and Courtney Love hug and make up at Nirvana's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
CNN.com—Amazon offers warehouse workers up to $5,000 to quit
CBS News—Man whose legal name is God sues Equifax for refusing to give him a credit rating because of his name


4.14.14
CNN.com—KKK member murders three at Jewish community center
USA Today—Man loses shot at big Wheel of Fortune payday because he couldn't correctly pronounce the words despite the fact that all the letters in the puzzle had been revealed
ABCnews.com—Michael Phelps announces that he is coming out of retirement to swim in the 2016 Olympics in Rio
Fox News—Maryland decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of marijuana meant for personal use
NBC News—New moon may be spinning out of Saturn's rings
CBS News—Poker pro accused of cheating by Atlantic City casino


4.15.14
Fox News—Texas man sentenced to 18 months in jail for urinating on the Alamo
CBS News—Detroit auctioning off vacant homes for $1,000
CNN.com—Oklahoma bans its cities and towns from raising the minimum wage
USA Today—Amazon reportedly planning to launch 3D smartphone in second half of 2014
NBC News—Sharknado 2 producers crowdfunding bonus chainsaw scene
BBC News—Condoleezza Rice joins Dropbox board


4.16.14
ABCnews.com—French lab loses thousands of vials filled with the SARS virus
CBS News—College Board reveals more details about the upcoming changes to the SAT
NBC News—Yahoo COO who was fired after only 15 months on the job receives $58 million severance package
CNN.com—Google working on modular smartphone
Fox News—Houston high schools to ditch high school team names that reference cultural stereotypes, like the Rebels and the Indians
USA Today—Sony says that it has sold more than 7 million PS4s to date


4.17.14
NBC News—Portland to drain resevoir after teen caught urinating in it
USA Today—Star Duke freshman Jabari Parker declares for the NBA draft
Fox News—Man finds 6 carat diamond in Crater of Diamonds state partk
CNN.com—X-Men director Bryan Singer accused of sexual abuse of a minor
CBS News—Zynga bringing FarmVille to mobile devices
ABCnews.com—Chad Johnson signs with Canadian Football League


4.18.14
CBS News—General Mills updates legal language that prevents you from joining a class action suit against the company if you use a coupon to buy their products
NBC News—Author and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at 87
BBC News—Prince promises new music after signing with Warner Brothers, the label he battled throughout the 90s
ABCnews.com—City of Providence, RI, suing several banks and other financial institutions over high-frequency trading
CNN.com—Chipotle announces that it will raise prices for the first time in three years
Fox News—US military developing stealth motorcycle


4.21.14
Fox News—Head injury sustained during mugging transforms man into math genius
CNN.com—Netflix raising prices
ABCnews.com—More Americans going without satellite or cable tv
NBC News—Researchers conclude that monkeys can do basic math
USA Today—Powdered alcohol approval revoked
CBS News—Atheist family sues NJ school district over "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance


4.22.14
NBC News—Georgia set to enact nation's most permissive gun law
USA Today—Albert Pujols hits his 500th home run
CNN.com—Apple could be partnering with Nike on fitness devices
ABCnews.com—JetBlue pilots vote to unionize
CBS News—Gabriel Garcia Marquez left behind unpublished manuscript
BBC News—Joss Whedon releases his latest film online at the same time it is premiering in theaters


4.23.14
NBC News—Iceberg six times the size of Manhattan breaks off Antarctica
USA Today—Jodie Foster marries her girlfriend
CBS News—Sri Lanka to deport British woman for having tattoo of Buddha on her arm
CNN.com—Apple announces seven to one stock split and bigger dividend for shareholders
Fox News—ESPN will become the first cable network to air an NFL playoff game
ABCnews.com—Wrigley Field celebrates its 100th birthday


4.24.14
CNN.com—New computer-generated works of art by Andy Warhol found on 30 year old floppy disk
ABCnews.com—Tech firms including Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe settle class action lawsuit with tech workers who claim that the companies' anti-poaching agreement amounted to anti-competitive collusion
CBS News—Kentucky postal worker sentenced to prison for failing to deliver over 45,000 pieces of mail
Fox News—Man sues doctors for making fun of him while he was unconsicous for a colonoscopy
USA Today—Some HBO shows will now be available on Amazon's streaming video service
NBC News—Banksy condemns auction of his urban murals that were removed from the walls he painted them on


4.25.14
ABCnews.com—Teen fatally stabbed by classmate after rejecting his invitation to prom
CNN.com—Measles cases at highest levels in nearly 20 years
CBS News—Taco Bell parent company planning more upscale taco restaurant to compete with Chipotle
NBC News—Apple to fix faulty power switch buttons on iPhone 5
Fox News—Four Seasons restaurant being sued over plans to move Picasso painting
USA Today—Seth Meyers to host Emmys


4.28.14
CBS News—Nissan introduces new auto paint that never needs to be washed
Fox News—Sponsors abandon LA Clippers after owner is secretly taped making racist remarks to his girlfriend
NBC News—French tourist offers Richard Gere her leftovers in NYC, thinking that he was a homeless man
CNN.com—Paul Simon and wife Edie Brickell arrested after domestic dispute
ABCnews.com—Disney to pour another $800 million in Shanghai theme park, bringing the total investment to over $5 billion
USA Today—Documentary filmmakers find cache of E.T. Atari game cartridges that were tossed out after the game's massive failure in the 80s


4.29.14
CNN.com—Clippers owner fined $2.5 million and banned from NBA events for life after making racist comments
Fox News—Cast of new Star Wars movie revealed
BBC News—Scorpions drummer sentenced to one month in jail in Dubai for "offensive behavior", such as drinking alcohol without a license
CBS News—Toyota moving its US headquarters from California to Texas
USA Today—Walmart to start selling auto insurance
NBC News—Willie Nelson earns fifth degree black belt


4.30.14
USA Today—China predicted to eclipse US and become world's largest economy this year
ABCnews.com—Street collapses in Baltimore after heavy rains
CBS News—Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams arrested over 1972 murder
CNN.com—Actor Bob Hoskins dies at 71
Fox News—Toronto mayor Rob Ford taking leave of absence to go to rehab
NBC News—Coffee could lower diabetes risk

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