daily links: june 2014

6.2.14
CNN.com—Ann B. Davis, actress who played Alice on the Brady Bunch, dies at 88 after hitting her head due to a fall
USA Today—Obama and EPA to seek 30% reduction in CO2 emissions from power plants by 2030
ABCnews.com—Scientists announce that they have successfully teleported a very small amount of matter over the distance of three meters
CBS News—Glass house featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off sells for just over $1 million
Fox News—Mark Zuckerberg donates $120 million to San Francisco area schools
NBC News—Rocker Marilyn Manson to join cast of Sons of Anarchy


6.3.14
CNN.com—Apple previews new versions of iOS and OS X
ABCnews.com—Dan Marino files concussion lawsuit against the NFL
USA Today—Houston Astros first base prospect signs deal for $10 before taking a single swing in the big leagues
Fox News—Seattle raises minimum wage to $15 to be phased in over several years
CBS News—NRA asks open-carry activists to stop their rallies in public places like family restaurants for fear that they will turn people anti-gun
NBC News—Scientists use lasers to regrow teeth


6.4.14
BBC News—Pixar giving away its rendering software for free for non-commercial use
ABCnews.com—Dan Marino withdraws from class action suit against the NFL one day after announcing his participation
CBS News—Panera will remove all artificial additives from its products by 2016
USA Today—Game of Thrones publisher hints that series could expand to eight books
Fox News—Sony to stop selling PSP
NBC News—Sbarro exits bankruptcy protection


6.5.14
BBC News—Pixar giving away its rendering software for free for non-commercial use
ABCnews.com—Dan Marino withdraws from class action suit against the NFL one day after announcing his participation
CBS News—Panera will remove all artificial additives from its products by 2016
USA Today—Game of Thrones publisher hints that series could expand to eight books
Fox News—Sony to stop selling PSP
NBC News—Sbarro exits bankruptcy protection


6.6.14
ABCnews.com—Two 12 year old girls attempt to stab friend to death in order to become acolytes of fictional Slender Man character created as an internet meme
USA Today—Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman chosen for cover of Madden 15
Fox News—Red wine may help fight cavities
NBC News—Tetris turns 30
CBS News—Woman sues hospital after her syphilis diagnosis was posted on Facebook by a romantic rival who worked there
BBC News—Scientists find evidence that another planet crashed into the Earth to create the moon


6.9.14
USA Today—Actor Tracy Morgan critically injured in multi-vehicle crash
CBS News—Two Las Vegas police officers ambushed and gunned down while having lunch
ABCnews.com—California Chrome loses Belmont Stakes and misses Triple Crown bid
Fox News—Utah police officer refuses assignment to work Salt Lake City gay pride parade
NBC News—A chatbot becomes the first program to pass the Turing Test by convincing humans judges that they were conversing with another human
CNN.com—US capitol building evacuated after small plane enters restricted airspace over DC


6.10.14
Huffington Post—In an attempt to block Obamacare implementation, Virginia GOP gets Democrat state senator to resign by bribing him and his daughter with lucrative jobs
CBS News—Google Chrome becomes the most popular browser in the US
NBC News—World's largest video game collection going up for auction
USA Today—GoDaddy announces plans for IPO
Fox News—Tyson to buy Hillshire for $8.5 billion
CNN.com—Amazon launches PayPal competitor


6.11.14
CNN.com—Judge in California rules that teacher tenure rules are unconstitutional, effectively eliminating tenure in the state
ABCnews.com—GOP House majority leader Eric Cantor loses his primary to Tea Party challenger in stunning upset
Fox News—NSF suspends researcher who used government supercomputers to mine Bitcoins
USA Today—Trailer for Dumb and Dumber sequel revealed
CBS News—Vincent D'Onofrio signs on to play villain in Netflix's Daredevil series
NBC News—James Cameron confirms that Sigourney Weaver will return in the Avatar sequels


6.12.14
BBC News—Amazon halts preorders of DVDs like The Lego Movie in spat with Warner Brothers over pricing
USA Today—James Franco teaching online film course
NBC News—Federal lawsuit challenges Seattle's $15 minimum wage
CNN.com—Google spends $500 million to buy startup that makes satellites
Fox News—Sony making Sonic the Hedgehog feature film
CBS News—Internet star Grumpy Cat to star in holiday movie on Lifetime


6.13.14
CNN.com—Tesla sharing its patents with any automaker who wants to manufacture electric cars in order to speed adoption of the technology
Fox News—Harrison Ford injured on set of new Star Wars movie
USA Today—US Marshals to auction off $18 million worth of Bitcoins seized from Silk Road
ABCnews.com—Alex Trebek sets record for hosting the most episodes of a single game show
NBC News—Court rules that POM can sue Coca-Cola over misleadingly labeled pomegranate blueberry juice blend
CBS News—Priceline buying OpenTable for $2.6 billion


6.16.14
CNN.com—Casey Kasem dies at 82
CBS News—Google working on fitness platform that will compete with Apple's just-revealed HealthKit
BBC News—Commercial for Xbox One is accidentally turning on the consoles of current owners using voice commands
ABCnews.com—FCC investigating cause of internet slowdowns between some content providers and the ISPs who deliver the content to customers
USA Today—Thomas the Tank Engine theme park coming to New England
Fox News—Google considering buying stake in commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic


6.17.14
CNN.com—Baseball hall-of-famer Tony Gwynn dies at 54
CBS News—Team USA wins its first World Cup match against Ghana
BBC News—Two scientists integral to the search for the Higgs boson given knighthoods
USA Today—International Space Station getting espresso maker
Fox News—Miss USA forgets the capital of her home state during radio interview
ABCnews.com—Obama to ban federal contractors from LGBT bias towards their workers


6.18.14
NBC News—UPS announces new pricing plan that takes into account size as well as weight
CNN.com—Comcast internet customers who rent their routers from Comcast are having their home networks turned into public hotspots
USA Today—California legislators reject bill that would have mandated warning labels on sugary beverages
ABCnews.com—Popeyes Chicken buys back its recipes from the estate of its founder from $43 million
CBS News—Rare 1 cent stamp sells at auction for $9.5 million
Fox News—Kickstarter for commercial drone for the masses has already raised half a million dollars, ten times its original goal


6.23.14
NBC News—Mormon church excommunicates woman's rights activist
Fox News—Amazon launches Fire smartphone
CBS News—Goldman Sachs trader sues his employer, claiming that he was shortchanged when he received only $8.25 million as his annual bonus
ABCnews.com—Gordon Ramsey ending his Kitchen Nightmares show after ten years
CNN.com—Sting not planning to leave his hundreds of millions to his kids
USA Today—Microsoft offering $650 for customers willing to trade their Macbooks for the Surface Pro


6.24.14
ABCnews.com—Syrian planes hit targets in Iraq
CNN.com—CDC says that more than 80 workers were accidentally exposed to live anthrax virus
Fox News—San Francisco tells tech firm Monkey Parking to stop auctioning off public city parking spaces
USA Today—AT&T and DirecTV claim that merger will lower prices for consumers
CBS News—Facebook could replace passwords with photo arrays
NBC News—Harley-Davidson reveals electric motorcycle


6.30.14
Fox News—Supreme Court rules that Aereo's rebroadcast of over-the-air television broadcasts is copyright infringement; company suspends operations as a result
USA Today—CNBC host accidentally outs Apple CEO Tim Cook
CBS News—ISIS declares itself a new country, an Islamic caliphate
ABCnews.com—Fired nanny refuses to leave family's house
CNN.com—Charges in UNC fake classes scandal may be dropped
NBC News—Barnes & Noble to sell off Nook business

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