10.1.14
CNN.com—Microsoft skips over Windows 9 and goes straight to Windows 10 for no apparent reason
Fox News—CDC confirms first case of Ebola in the US
CBS News—Amazon adds racism disclaimer to Tom & Jerry cartoons available via their Prime streaming service
BBC News—UK makes it legal to make backup digital copies of CDs, DVDs, and ebooks
NBC News—After pressure from the FCC, Verizon cancels plans to throttle 4G data speeds for heaviest unlimited users
USA Today—Pebble drops price of smartwatch to $99

10.2.14
CBS News—White woman sues sperm bank after they mistakenly gave her sperm from a black man
CNN.com—British town paints over Banksy graffiti piece
USA Today—Adam Sandler to make four original feature films for Netflix
NBC News—Microsoft introduces first new Office app in a decade. No, it's nothing useful.
BBC News—Researchers believe AIDS originated in the Congo in the 1920s
Fox News—Student who ran onto the field during Ohio State football game loses scholarship

10.3.14
BBC News—Losing your sense of smell may be the first indicator that you are nearing the end of your lifespan
CBS News—Climate change could alter male/female ratio in the human population
NBC News—Facebook claims it has won $2 billion suing spammers
Fox News—Google may introduce messaging app that does not require a Google account
CNN.com—Tobacco could be key to Ebola cure
USA Today—TNT cancels Dallas reboot after three seasons

10.6.14
USA Today—Supreme Court declines to hear any same-sex marriage appeals, effectively legalizing it in 11 new states for the time being
NBC News—Ikea unveils new furniture line that takes five minutes to assemble and requires no tools
Fox News—David Lynch reviving Twin Peaks for nine episodes on Showtime
CNN.com—Hewlett-Packard to split into two companies
CBS News—Michael Phelps suspended from swimming for six months after second DUI arrest
ABCnews.com—Man sues TSA for spilling his mother's ashes during a bag inspection

10.7.14
CBS News—Three scientists win Nobel Prize for physics for their invention of blue LEDs
Fox News—7th Heaven star accused of child molestation
CNN.com—Twitter sues US government over gag order on national security requests for user data
ABCnews.com—Owner of house in Detroit wants to trade it for a new iPhone 6
BBC News—Sapphire manufacturer that received a half a billion dollar investment from Apple files for Chaper 11 bankruptcy protection
USA Today—Descendants of the woman who first portrayed Aunt Jemima sue the syrup company for a share of the profits

10.8.14
BBC News—JK Rowling says cryptic tweet referred to screenplay she is writing, not another Harry Potter novel
CBS News—Director of Ghostbusters 3 confirms that the leads will be female
USA Today—MIT to offer free online courses in video game design
CNN.com—First patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US dies in Dallas hospital
NBC News—FTC fines AT&T $105 million for overcharging, $80 million of which will be refunded to affected customers
Fox News—Five of the biggest US airports will screen passengers arriving from West Africa for fevers in an attempt to control the spread of Ebola

10.13.14
USA Today—UGA running back Todd Gurley, a frontrunner for the Heisman this year, is suspended for possible violations of NCAA policy related to signing autographs for money
CNN.com—Nurse in Dalls who treated Ebola patient who died and who claims she followed CDC protocol is infected with Ebola
Fox News—Parrot missing for four years returns home speaking Spanish instead of English
ABCnews.com—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes first public appearance in 40 days
NBC News—The Ravens' Joe Flacco sets NFL record by throwing five touchdowns in first 16 minutes of the game
CBS News—Symantec splitting itself into two companies

10.14.14
BBC News—Walking Dead season 5 premiere breaks cable records as it attracts 17.3 million viewers
ABCnews.com—Study finds link between fracking and hundreds of earthquakes in Ohio
NBC News—Mark Zuckerberg donates $25 million for Ebola research
CNN.com—Facebook and Apple offering to freeze the eggs of female employees for free
CBS News—Robert Downey will revisit Iron Man character for Captain America 3
Fox News—New diabetes drug is activated by shining a blue light on the patient's skin

10.15.14
USA Today—Taco Bell testing menu items that feature Sriracha
CNN.com—HBO announces that it will offer standalone streaming subscriptions for HBO Go starting in 2015
ABCnews.com—Marvel kills off iconic Wolverine character
NBC News—Lockheed says it is working on a fusion reactor
Fox News—Connecticut man arrested for "agressive mopping"
CBS News—Neil Patrick Harris to host next year's Oscars

10.16.14
ABCnews.com—Current Florida governor, Republican Rick Scott, refuses to come onstage during a televised debate because his opponent brought a small fan
CBS News—Madeleine Albright to be featured on Wheaties box
CNN.com—Warwick Davis joins cast of Star Wars Episode VII
Fox News—Jennifer Lawrence says that people who insist that they cannot eat gluten just have an eating disorder
USA Today—CBS details new streaming service
NBC News—McDonald's will not do a national rollout of the McRib this year

10.17.14
NBC News—Bono says he wears sunglasses all the time because he has glaucoma
ABCnews.com—Air Force's mysterious space plane, the X37-B, lands after two year mission
CNN.com—Joe Biden's son kicked out of Navy after testing positive for cocaine
CBS News—Obama's credit card declined when trying to pay for dinner with the First Lady
BBC News—Delaware student spends two years building massive city in Minecraft
USA Today—Starbucks changes appearance policy for baristas and will now allow tattoos and nose piercings

10.20.14
BBC News—Motorcycle used in Easy Rider sellls for $1.35 million at auction
NBC News—NY Attorney General finds that over 70% of Airbnb listings in NYC are illegal
CBS News—Police in riot gear respond to drunken crowds at pumpkin festival
USA Today—Peyton Manning sets new record for career touchdown passes in the history of the NFL
Fox News—Australian scientists looking for ways to mine metal from plants
CNN.com—Man receives medical treatment for addiction to Google Glass

10.21.14
NBC News—Alabama House Speaker, Republican Mike Hubbard, is charged with 23 felony corruption charges
CBS News—Lorde's song "Royals" banned from San Francisco radio stations during World Series
Fox News—Convicted murderer sues Connecticut because porn is banned in the prison system
CNN.com—Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta dies at 82
ABCnews.com—Apple releases iOS 8.1 and launches mobile payment service, Apple Pay
USA Today—Netscape founder Marc Andreessen steps down from eBay board

10.22.14
ABCnews.com—Fort Collins, CO, runs out of Count Chocula cereal after local brewery buys out the supply to make a seasonal Halloween-themed beer
USA Today—Dallas Cowboys release Michael Sam, the first openly gay player taken in an NFL draft
CNN.com—Snapchat starts inserting ads into its users' feeds
CBS News—Costs for the three Hobbit films could top $800 million
Fox News—Court rules that private operators of red light cameras cannot issue citations to drivers
NBC News—Toys R Us stops selling Breaking Bad action figures after complaints from parents

10.23.14
CBS News—New report reinforces earlier claims of massive academic fraud at UNC, mostly benefiting athletes
CNN.com—Google testing new app, Inbox, meant to create a different email experience than the normal Gmail client
ABCnews.com—Early Apple computer that was made in Steve Jobs garage in 1976 sells for nearly $1 million at auction
Fox News—William Shatner in talks to appear in next Star Trek film
NBC News—Goodfellas actor sues Fox over mobster character on the Simpsons
USA Today—Reynolds American, maker of Camel cigarettes, bans smoking in its offices

10.24.14
Fox News—Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen giving $100 million to fight Ebola
CNN.com—TLC cancels Here Comes Honey Boo Boo after TMZ reveals that the star's mother is dating a convicted child molester
NBC News—New York and New Jersey institute mandatory 21 day quarantine for healthcare workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients
CBS News—Christian Bale to play Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin's biopic about the Apple founder
USA Today—Proctor & Gamble to spin off Duracell as its own company
BBC News—AMC buys significant stake in BBC America network

10.30.14
Fox News—Private space launch corporation Orbital has one of its rockets explode shortly after launch
CNN.com—Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals that he is gay
ABCnews.com—Microsoft unveils fitness tracker and accompanying health app
CBS News—Google Glass officially banned in all US movie theaters
NBC News—JK Rowling to release new Harry Potter short story on Halloween
USA Today—Fitbit unveils three new fitness trackers, but still has no plans to integrate with Apple's HealthKit platform

10.31.14
CNN.com—Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo explodes during test flight, killing the pilot
BBC News—Walmart to close 30 stores in Japan
Fox News—UPenn offering a class title Wasting Time on the Internet
ABCnews.com—Paul Reubens that a third Pee Wee Herman movie is in the works
USA Today—Kevin Spacey plays leading character in next Call of Duty title
CBS News—Seth Rogen to play Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs biopic