Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.

Big News

• Google and MPEG LA settle long-running VP8/H.264 patent dispute

Recalls

• The Pampered Chef Recalls Garlic Slicers Due to Laceration Hazard

General News

• Arrest in fatal NY hit-and-run

International

• Opposition uses tablet to speak out in parliament
• N Korea ramps up nuclear rhetoric
• After Hugo Chavez whats next for Venezuelan oil
• UK gives £10m to fund Afghan mining
• Italian bank director found dead
• Kenyan Election Contender Asks That Vote Count Be Halted
• Russian officials told to stop using phrases linked to corruption
• George Any ties to abusers could disqualify papal candidate

Politics

• Congress wont face pay cut in sequester – Even though they should.
• Rand Paul and the principle principle
• How to fix sequestration without raising taxes
• Sen. Rand Paul ends talking filibuster on drones Brennan – He stayed on message with the filibuster. This is how a filibuster should be.

Obits

• Jazz trumpeter Kenny Ball dies
• Apartheid death squad boss dies

Health

• Why do the Italians live longer than us
• Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Gets Covered by Health Care Reform

Science/Space

• Electrode therapy helps anorexia
• Name Your Own Exoplanet For $4.99
• Cancer risk lower than feared for Fukushima locals
• Salty water oozes up from Jupiter moons hidden ocean
• Largest Brain-Mapping Project Set to Launch

Financial

• Time Warner to spin off magazines

Historical

• What Antarctica Looked Like Before the Ice

Gaming

• Walking Dead season two targeting fall 2013
• SimCity launching more servers
• Non-critical SimCity features disabled to improve server issues
• Angry Birds Space floats onto Steam
• Age of Empires 2 HD coming to Steam April 9

Gadgets

• Exergen Temporal Artery Thermometer
• LED Ampli-TIE gives you an electrifying appearance
• Levitron Lamp

Reviews

• Truly Ergonomic Computer Keyboard Review One Month with the TECK

Law

• Al Gore sued for selling Current TV to Al Jazeera
• Microsoft backs privacy bill in effort to keep Google Apps out of the classroom
• Google and Opera behind Microsofts $730-million EU antitrust fine says FT

Patents

• The Insanity Of Making A Wizard Of Oz Film In Todays IP Climate

Technology

• Microsoft exec says shoddy OEM products have hurt companys reputation
• Has SXSW peaked Is that bad
• Convert your NEX camera into a 140-megapixel monster using the bizarre RhinoCam adapter
• Yuppies Might Be the Only Market for Same-Day Delivery – There are very few things I would need to have same day delivery. These would be flowers, and that’s about it. And this is able to be accomplished, so I don’t need this service.
• U.S. Bank now letting customers snap photos of their bills for automatic mobile payment

Internet

• Facebook may someday charge users for an ad-free experience
• Berlusconi convicted over wiretap
• China unexpectedly lifts ban on IMDb website
• HBO The Key To Combating Piracy Is To Make Game Of Thrones More Available… Except Here

Social

• Update Facebook reveals a more visual customized News Feed
• Ex-TSA chief Allow axes
• Sexting Habits of Teens

Mobile

• LG Optimus F7 debuts in Korea as Optimus LTE III

Rumors

• Apple may have finally found a way to dump Samsung once and for all

Software/Apps

• WeatherSpheres Apps Provide Detailed Forecasts HD Radar
• Path 3 adds private messaging and stickers much like your 5th grade binder

Security

• Android accounts for most mobile malware says F-Secure
• The FBI Is Spying on Google Users – SHOCK…

Developer

• The subtle genius behind Amazons lightning-fast drop-down menus
• Facebook Makes Itself a Bit More SPDY

London/Britain/UK

• Sugar no intention of paying out
• All Londons Housing Problems Solved
• More than 2 million people give up work to care for relatives
• Vocational courses to be dropped from school and college league tables
• Thousands of children ineligible for free school meals but live in hidden poverty
• Hundreds of jobs go at fire-hit mine
• Bank of England reaches fourth anniversary of record low base rates
• Baby in foster care is left on bus
• Supreme court may force UK to act on air pollution
• Schoolgirl stabbed to death on Birmingham bus
• Britons seized in Egypt are freed
• Rupert Murdoch seeks to reassure bailed Sun journalists
• Baby born on packed commuter train

Personal

• I see you The technopanic over Google Glass

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

• 82-year-old woman tossed off train for singing VIDEO
• Police No charges in 911 call death – What the fuck?

Funny

• Lesson #1688 – Weekend Cereal and Other Food
• March 07 2013
• Unshelved on Thursday March 07 2013

Chicagoland

• Blackhawks record run continues with win over Avalanche
• Maine West athletic director resigns but will teach next year
• Yo-Yo Ma Visits Edgewater Schools — Twice
• Richard Dent Ernie Banks Back Gay Marriage in Illinois
• Cooler March after 2012 heat wave – I’m not for global warming, but having a warmer March last year was quite nice.
• Former Bear Chris Zorich charged in tax case
• Peterson Could Have Police Pension Stripped – And he should

Total Number of stories: 85

Look for more stories tomorrow.