Daily Run Down 08/04/2011
04 Aug 2011Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Why Grilled-Cheese Sandwiches Are Too Good for Restaurants
- Chrome OS: Hacked!
- McLaren’s New Supercar Takes Rivalry with Ferrari to the Streets
- $15 billion: The value of a box of Girl Scout cookies
- It Does Remind Me of a Previous Antitrust Case
- Subtractive graffiti
- CLASSIC: The Graveyard Shift Just Opened Up
- New Jockeying in Congress for Next Phase in Budget Fight
- Google in a Nut
- Emanuel: Firing won’t solve Fire Prevention Bureau corruption
- Woman: D.B. Cooper was my uncle
- Rape as a Weapon of War: Men Suffer, Too
- Google Plus Bans Creator of Firefox, Facebook Product Director, For Using His Real Name [Update: He's Back]
- U.S. broadband actually approaches advertised speeds
- Editions by AOL: A Most Magazine-Like Magazine App for the iPad
- Do you keep your job when your IT is in the cloud?
- Emanuel plans to lure young people here in hopes of seeding tech jobs
- City to lay off 24, ending overnight homeless transports
- Yearly tab for Ald. Burke’s bodyguards nearly $600,000
- Marovitz, husband of Christie Hefner, settles insider trading lawsuit
- Gone in 43 seconds: Tesla’s Model S gets teased on the track (video)
- irrefragable
- London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere
- Actress Says She Can’t Be Evicted Because She Moved Out
- Wu notifies governor, speaker of resignation
(AP) - No PS4 or Xbox 720 before 2014
- Sony support site leaks S1 and S2 tablet screens, may run Honeycomb 3.2 (update: pulled!)
- Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu
- UK Government Announces Copyright Plans; Surprisingly Good, With A Few Problems
- Google whines about getting outbid by Apple on patents
- August 04, 2011
- Dad: ‘Shock’ over son who died after arrest
(AP) - Bubba Smith, N.F.L. Star and Actor, Dies at 66
- Genes, Not Healthy Living, Get Most to Age 100
(HealthDay) - Judge refuses to restore wolf protections
(Reuters) - Network That Preyed on Children Is Broken
- How a Tax-Evasion Whistleblower Became One of Europe’s Most Wanted
- Feds hack past anonymity, bust 72 users of child abuse “horror” site
- Pentagon Sounds Alarm on Threat of Budget Cuts
- More Chinese Knockoff Stores Uncovered: Fake Ikea Just As Frustrating As Real Ikea
- Animated Look at Juno’s Jupiter Mission
- Famine declared in three new Somali regions: UN
(AFP) - Microsoft Research’s .NET Gadgeteer steps out into the light, shoots daggers at Arduino (video)
- Apple launches Find My Mac tool for iCloud.com beta
- Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce
- Apple issues Quicktime 7.7 for Windows, Leopard and updates printer drivers
- Yahoo Mail suffers outage; extent undisclosed
- Activision reveals sales figures for Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2
- BlackBerry Torch 9810 hands-on
- FAA Taking a Look At News Corp's Use of Drone
- Did Earth once have two Moons? [Space]
- Apple updates QuickTime security for Leopard, Windows
- Charlie Sheen’s Two and a Half Men Replacement: Meet Walden Schmidt
- HTC Announces Web-Based Bootloader Unlock Tool
- Confirmation That Record Labels Wanted ISPs To Spy On Users And Report Infringement To RIAA
- If You Position Yourself Right, You Create an Infinite Loop
- U.S.D.A. Recalls 36 Million Pounds of Turkey
- King Tut Related to Half of European Men? Maybe Not
- Clearwire announces plans to adopt 4G LTE – if it can find the money
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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