daily links: august 2015

8.3.15
NBC News—China to restrict exports of drones and supercomputers
CBS News—Hitchhiking robot who wanted to travel across the US only makes it to Philly before he is decapitated and dismembered
CNN.com—Baltimore reaches out to feds for help stemming the violence that has erupted in the wake of rioting over the past few months
BBC News—Obama details clean energy plan to combat climate change
Fox News—Jimmy Carter has surgery to remove small mass from liver
USA Today—Angry Birds 2 downloaded 10 million times less than a week after release


8.4.15
Fox News—Healthy 75 year old woman ends her life at a suicide clinic because she feared growing old
CNN.com—3D printed drug is first of its kind to be approved by FDA
CBS News—Drone drops drugs into a prison yard in Ohio
ABCnews.com—Netflix giving workers a year of paid leave after the birth of a child
NBC News—New luxury watch comes with an Apple Watch on the underside of its clasp
USA Today—Lexus releases video of its hoverboard project


8.5.15
ABCnews.com—Yelp now includes reviews of hospitals and doctors
BBC News—Peter Dinklage being replaced as voice of Ghost in Destiny video game
CNN.com—Dr. Dre's first album in 16 years will be available exclusively through Apple
NBC News—Study finds that rich people tend to overestimate the wealth of others
Fox News—Buzz Aldrin's expense report for his moon mission revealed
CBS News—New species of lizard named after naturalist David Attenborough


8.6.15
USA Today—Super Bowl ads to cost record $5 million for 30 seconds of airtime
CBS News—Russia to charge US $82 million per person to send American astronauts to the ISS
ABCnews.com—Second person dies of the plague in Colorado
CNN.com—McDonald's testing table service in some locations
BBC News—Leak of financial documents indicate that Uber is losing millions of dollars each quarter
NBC News—Coast Guard seizes $181 million worth of cocaine from homemade submarine


8.7.15
NBC News—Fast food restaurant owners consider lawsuit against New York for raising the minimum wage in their establishments to $15 per hour
Fox News—San Francisco police force has a dedicated officer for scanning social media to look for criminal activity
CBS News—Dr. Dre says profits from his new album will go to the city of Compton
BBC News—Security experts hack a Tesla
CNN.com—Verizon ditching annual contracts and moving to month-to-month plans only
USA Today—Jon Stewart's final Daily Show nets second-biggest audience in the show's history


8.10.15
CNN.com—Google announces major restructuring; will now be part of umbrella company called Alphabet
ABCnews.com—Former Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert running for Congress
BBC News—Leak of toxic waste turns river in Colorado yellow
CBS News—13 members of US rowing team fall ill at site of 2016 Olympics in Rio
USA Today—Football great Frank Gifford dies at 94
NBC News—Diet Pepsi ditching aspartame in formula revamp


8.11.15
BBC News—Scotland to ban the growing of GM crops
NBC News—Jets quarterback Geno Smith out with a broken jaw for 6-10 weeks after being punched by teammate in the locker room
USA Today—Michigan judge rules that man is allowed to openly carry a pistol into his daughter's elementary school
Fox News—ISS astronauts eat veggies grown in space for first time ever
CNN.com—Deadliest Catch captain dies at Sturgis motorcycle rally
CBS News—Winona Ryder confirms that Beetlejuice sequel is in the works


8.12.15
USA Today—Michigan bookstore offers refunds on Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman, saying it is not a new book as promised but rather a rejected first draft of To Kill A Mockingbird
CBS News—CDC report says that 9 out of 10 Americans, the highest percentage since 1972
CNN.com—Early Tolkien manuscript to be published
NBC News—Jimmy Carter reveals that his liver cancer has metastasized
Fox News—Los Angeles using nearly 100 million black plastic balls to help prevent evaporation in its main resevoir
BBC News—England to test roadways that will charge electric cars as they drive


8.13.15
NBC News—Donald Trump fired by NBC from his Celebrity Apprentice reality show
CNN.com—Ohio to vote on making marijuana legal
Fox News—Harvard student loses Facebook internship after exploiting security flaw in the social network's Messenger app
USA Today—HBO to air next five seasons of Sesame Street in addition to the show still being shown in PBS
CBS News—Study finds that 1 in 6 NFL players go bankrupt after their playing days are over
BBC News—Competitive gamers now to be tested for the same performance enhancing substances as Olympic athletes


8.14.15
BBC News—US Embassy in Cuba reopens after more than 50 years
CBS News—Benicio del Toro could be joining cast of Star Wars Episode VIII
NBC News—Disney shares details about Toy Story 4
USA Today—Snoop Dogg's son quits UCLA football team to focus on film production
Fox News—DARPA's XS-1 space plane could fly as fast as Mach 10
CNN.com—NBC signs Jimmy Fallon to host The Tonight Show through 2021


8.17.15
Fox News—Apollo 14 astronaut who walked on the moon claims that aliens disabled warheads to prevent nuclear war
ABCnews.com—Jon Stewart to host WWE event
BBC News—Jurassic World director tapped to direct Star Wars Episode IX
CNN.com—Straight Outta Compton wins the box office with strong $60 million opening weekend
USA Today—First female soldiers graduate from Army Ranger school
CBS News—KFC replacing Darrell Hammond as Colonel Sanders with fellow SNL alum Norm Macdonald


8.18.15
CNN.com—College renames itself after $20 million donation
CBS News—Oldest human bones so far discovered are unearthed in Africa
NBC News—FTC gives $25,000 to creators of app meant to eliminate robocalls
USA Today—Apple disputes finding that only 50% of Apple Music trial customers are still using the service, saying the numbers are nearly 80%
Fox News—Teen pinned under truck after accident uses Siri to call for help
ABCnews.com—Google introduces new wireless router for the home


8.19.15
BBC News—Intel makes the speech software used by Stephen Hawking open source
ABCnews.com—Hackers make good on their threat and release the names, emails, and other information of millions of users of cheating web site Ashley Madison
CNN.com—Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle pleads guilty to possessing child pornography and having sex with a minor
CBS News—Major theater chain now checking customers' bags as part of increased security measures
Fox News—New study finds that e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes
USA Today—Aston Martin making electric car to compete with Tesla


8.20.15
NBC News—Eli Manning thinks he should be the NFL's highest paid quarterback
USA Today—Twitter shares fall below IPO price
CBS News—July was hottest month ever recorded
CNN.com—Josh Duggar on Ashley Madison user list released by hackers earlier this week
Fox News—Extra virgin olive oil could help lower blood sugar and cholesterol
ABCnews.com—New Sky Pool with glass bottom will be suspended 25 stories above the streets of London


8.21.15
CBS News—Clinton's college affordability plan would include public service incentives and an expansion of AmeriCorps
CNN.com—Spotify's new "privacy" policy gives it access to far more of your data than you would imagine
USA Today—Facebook co-founder urges companies to reconsider their approach to work/life balance for their employees
ABCnews.com—New strain of lice are resistant to common drug treatments
NBC News—Yale computer scientist creates program that can write original music in the style of Bach
BBC News—British health agency proposes disciplinary action for doctors who consistently overprescribe antibiotics


8.24.15
USA Today—New York Stock Exchange prepared to halt trading if stocks continue their freefall of the last few days
CNN.com—Fear the Walking Dead debuts to record audience
ABCnews.com—California considering laws that would make it illegal to fly drones over private property without permission
CBS News—Panda at National Zoo gives birth to twins
BBC News—Researchers making progress on universal flu vaccine
NBC News—Straight Outta Compton wins box office for second weekend in a row


8.25.15
USA Today—New video game will award an island to the player with the most points 90 days after launch
NBC News—Feds raid offices of male escort web site Rentboy
Fox News—Wisconsin firm wins contract to build the replacement for the Humvee
ABCnews.com—Kim Kardashian sets new record with 44 million Instagram followers
CBS News—Curt Schilling posts tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis
CNN.com—Boy trips and rips hole in centuries old million dollar painting in museum


8.26.15
ABCnews.com—Dog trained to sniff out electronic devices found hidden flash drive used to help convict Jared Fogle of porn charges
USA Today—One of the twin panda cubs recently born at the National Zoo dies
Fox News—Lockheed Martin working on successor to U2 spy plane
NBC News—YouTube launches Twitch competitor
CNN.com—Walmart to stop selling AR-15s and other military-style semiautomatic assault rifles (which can be easily converted to automatic weapons), but say they are doing it only because of slumping sales of the guns
CBS News—Burger King proposes creating a McWhopper with McDonald's, a burger that would combine the signature items of both restaurants


8.27.15
BBC News—UK music publisher to sue SoundCloud for unpaid royalties
CNN.com—New Tesla earns perfect score from Consumer Reports
CBS News—Donald Trump allows audience member to touch his hair to prove that he doesn't wear a toupee
USA Today—Spike Lee to receive honorary Oscar
Fox News—Wanted man arrested after posting his location on Facebook
ABCnews.com—Apple to announce new iPhone on September 9


8.28.15
NBC News—Boeing demos portable tactical laser meant to quickly incapacitate drones
USA Today—Ford may bring back the Ranger and the Bronco
Fox News—Woman claims that her sensitivity to WiFi signals prevents her from holding a job
CNN.com—Boxer Floyd Mayweather shows up for training session in $5 million car
ABCnews.com—Matt Damon says next Bourne film was inspired by Edward Snowden
CBS News—Facebook has 1 billion users logging into the site in a single day


8.31.15
ABCnews.com—Ashley Madison CEO steps down in wake of hacking scandal
NBC News—Horror director Wes Craven dies at 76
CNN.com—Obama to rename Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in the US, in order to honor the native tribe from that region and also highlight climate change
BBC News—Netflix to lose thousands of movie titles in October after deal with Epix expires
CBS News—Scientists working on ice cream that doesn't melt as quickly
USA Today—Musical based on Spongebob Squarepants headed to Broadway

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