Daily Run Down 08/24/2011
24 Aug 2011Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Budget deficit slips to $1.28T; red ink continues
(AP) - Scientists identify point of entry for deadly Ebola virus
- Pixar’s Rejected ‘Toy Story’ Titles Revealed
- Verizon wants Obama to curtail potential patent war damages
- Russian supply ship for space station crashes
(AP) - Foreign journalists leave Tripoli hotel
(Reuters) - GameStop removing OnLive coupons from PC copies of Deus Ex
- ‘Kill tool’ released for unpatched Apache server vulnerability
- East Coast Earthquake Shakes Up NASA
- Bull semen spill causes scare, closes highway
(Reuters) - Microsoft showcases new copy, move, rename functions in Windows 8 (video)
- First Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ phone, Fujitsu IS12T, released on KDDI au in Japan
- Is Qadhafi Self-Delusional?
- All Together Now
- MakerBot Gets $10 Million Investment
- Acer loses $234 million in worse-than-expected Q2
- Netherlands: Samsung in violation of Apple patents, EU wide ban in place
- Human Body Might Adapt to Radiation Exposure
- Commerce Is Bad?
- Why the East Coast Earthquake Was Felt So far Away
- Five Years Later, Pluto’s Planethood Demotion Still Stirs Controversy
- Nurses Exposed to Toxic Cancer Drugs, Study Finds
- Windows Phone: new Mango SDK, Marketplace submissions, Tango news
- Wendy’s Drive-Thru FAIL
- Another Windows 8 tidbit: File management to get an overhaul
- More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs
- Engineer hacks a Kindle, creates easy to use prototype for sister with cerebral palsy
- Once-a-century earthquake rattles East Coast
(Reuters) - Microsoft Highlights New File Management Functionality in Windows 8
- Naperville 7-Eleven hit by armed robber
- Oddly Specific: Lunch, It’s Alive!
- Aug. 24, 1995: Say Hello to Windows 95
- Twitter founders unveil next social media project amid mystery
- Motorola Censured: Atrix Is Not ‘The World’s Most Powerful Smartphone’
- Developer Offers “Proof” Apple’s iPhone 5 is Dual Mode
- ‘An Apostrophe Is The Difference Between…’
- Fire guts Gurnee banquet hall
- AT&T's fall and winter 2011 roadmap leaked in spreadsheet glory
- Small Earthquake Shakes San Francisco Bay Area
- Unshelved on Wednesday, August 24, 2011
- Groupon Stumbles in China
- Above All Else, Eastern Quake Rattles Nerves
- Data for 43,000 at Yale winds up in Google search results
- 777 School Employees Will Be Let Go, in the Largest Layoff Under Bloomberg
- Airstrikes More Difficult as War Moves to Tripoli
- Volunteering FAIL
- Guest Lecture #14 – Brent
- Politician Name FAIL
- Juggling
- August 24, 2011
- In Yellowstone, Killing One Kind of Trout to Save Another
- Bungie details iPad release of Crimson: Steam Pirates, coming next week
- Quake rattles nerves but infrastructure holds up
(AP) - Pluto holds big surprises for NASA probe
- Amtrak back up to speed after earthquake disruptions
(Reuters) - Quake bolsters calls for public safety wireless network
(Reuters) - Pay to Play: Should Registered Organ Donors Get Priority as Recipients?
- WSJ: Sprint to Get the iPhone 5 in October
- Quake shuts down nuclear plant
- Ubisoft Removing DRM from PC Version of From Dust
- New York judge denies government warrant for Verizon location data
- Dish Network aims to build LTE cellular network
- Woman convicted of child abuse in hot sauce case
(AP) - Trailblazer Gary Vaynerchuk Retires From Daily Wine Videos
- Woman recorded cops after harassment claims ignored
- Acquia to Launch Apps Market for Drupal Sites
- VeriFone Willing to Shell Out $1 Billion Annually to Grow Payments Network
- What If the Earthquake Had Hit Manhattan? [Earthquake]
- Need More Public Domain Material?
- NASA Satellite Finds Coldest, Darkest Stars Yet
- The Lede Blog: Updates on the East Coast Earthquake
- Why was the East Coast earthquake felt so far from the epicenter?
- FDIC has to face $10 billion WaMu-related lawsuit
(Reuters)
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