Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Men of a Certain Age: TNT Series Cancelled, No Season Three
- Executive Who Ran Murdoch Unit at Time of Hacking Quits
- Square releases iOS testing framework
- Apple officially begins offering 7-day App Store return window in Taiwan
- As Twitter turns 5, it delivers 350 billion tweets per day
- Microsoft needs to stop giving people reasons NOT to upgrade Windows!
- City layoff notices to go out to hundreds
- Fossil May Prove an Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
- Apple releases iOS updates to fix PDF vulnerabilities
- Lab Report: More Thunderbolt speed results
- Tune into a Hashtag
- Movie thing of which I can’t think of a third example
- Google building Postini features into Apps
- National Security and Fuels of the Future: The Importance of Sec. 526
- juggernaut
- Mom charged with leaving sons in car on hot day
- MacBook Air coming next week with socketed 128GB SSDs
- Minnesota Ends Its Budget Crisis, at Heavy Cost
- Apple dumps Samsung; next-gen A6 chip to be manufactured by TSMC, report claims
- Navies to float science robots in pirate waters
(AP) - Vow of “love forever” tested by letter delivered 53 years late
(Reuters) - Look, Up in the Southern Sky: Shuttle with Space Station for Last Time
(SPACE.com) - Icahn bids for Clorox, suggests others step up
(Reuters) - ComEd: All electricity expected to be restored today
- West Wing Week: “Our Heroes Are All Around Us”
- Giant Marilyn Monroe statue unveiled
- Verizon LTE: no roaming, even if you want to
- US forced to redesign secret weapon after cyber breach
- Well That’s A Bummer: Verizon Claims LTE Phones “Probably” Incompatible with AT&T
- 300-pound teen exercised in secret
- For Judges, a Sunday Unlike Any Other
- O.K., Keep Looking Down: Sidewalks Will Stay Ad-Free
- French copyright cops: we’re swamped with “three strikes” complaints (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
- Life on Earth Is Getting Worse. Thanks, Humans
- Scientists to examine Ala. fishing rodeo catch
(AP) - You’re the Boss: Monitoring the Private Lives of Your Employees
- Slot Shape FAIL
- July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem Boat
- Mole says Apple A5 chip runs too hot for iPhone
- Conservationists sound alarm over macaque
(AFP) - 51st state? California politician pushes secession plan
- Sorry, Blockbuster, It Doesn’t Sound Like You’re Rescuing Netflix Customers to Me
- CLASSIC: Backpack FAIL
- Tomorrow last day to buy city sticker
- Global antiquities smuggling ring dismantled, authorities say
- MIT folds solar cell into paper airplane
- Drew Peterson trying to stop TV movie about him
- Ex-school official, board member indicted in $800,000 scheme
- Unshelved on Friday, July 15, 2011
- Minority students group rails against zero-tolerance policies
- 1.5 million daily Netflix users are on Wii
- Man builds turbine-powered Batmobile with iPad in dashboard
(Digital Trends) - Foreclosures Are Down. Why Isn’t That Good News?
- The Real Winnie the Pooh Returns to the Hundred Acre Wood
- Lesson #1116 – Nostalgia
- Groupon’s Coupon Expiration Examined by Connecticut Attorney General (Andrew Harris/Bloomberg)
- Managing IP Magazine Recognizes That Those Who Are Critical Of Intellectual Property Are Important To The Conversation
- Chevy Volts invade NYC police fleet, give cops all new ways to taze bros
- New tumor trial rules mobiles ‘not guilty’
- Food Makers Push Back on Ads for Children
- TSMC Begins Trial Manufacturing of Apple A6 Processors
- Google+ and Spotify Are So Great, You Can’t Use Them
- July 15, 2011
- Cell Phones
- Foursquare adds notification tray to iOS app
- Boat hits seawall near Adler Planetarium
- Google launches Photovine app for Apple’s iPhone, not Android (Nathan Olivarez-Giles/L.A. Times Tech …)
- Feature: Speed matters: how Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps… and beyond
- Space Shuttle Computer Failure Wakes Sleeping Astronauts
(SPACE.com) - Ron Paul’s new TV ad opposes raising debt limit
(AP) - Emanuel raises funds for Obama campaign here and in New York
- New Spin Revealed on Mysterious Antimatter
- Murdoch facing 9/11 hacking probe
- Can Google+ Sustain Growth Beyond Early Adopters?
- Hey Microsoft, There’s Nothing Wrong With “Windows”
- Benign Brain Tumors Not Linked to Cell Phones
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.