Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.

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Big News

• Dreamliner battery fire more serious than first thought
• Papal conclave to begin Tuesday

Recalls

• Subaru recalls 47000 self-starting cars and SUVs – OOPS!
• Tri-union Seafoods Expands Recall To Include Chunk Light Tuna In Oil Products
• Steves Real Food Recalls Turducken Canine Recipe Patties Because of Posssible Health Risk
• Tri-union Seafoods Expands Recall To Include Chunk Light Tuna In Oil Products
• Steves Real Food Recalls Turducken Canine Recipe Patties Because of Posssible Health Risk
• Diggin Your Dog Recalls Strippin Chicks Pet Treats Due to Possible Salmonella Hazard

General News

• Multimillion-dollar art trove found in old garage
• Lion opened cage to kill woman
• Philadelphia Officials Vote to Close 23 Schools
• VIDEO What does a spongy piano sound like
• Lucas hints at Star Wars reunion
• SyFy greenlights Helix apocalyptic TV series from Battlestar Galactica creator
• Denyce Graves sings the praises of quiet perseverance
• Singing woman kicked off Miami train
• Drunk driver sues friend restaurants after deadly crash conviction
• Bad news The U.S. power grid is getting pricier less reliable
• Unemployment rate drops to 7.7 percent. How real is job-market progress
• Danica Patrick hit by rock says shes OK
• Teeny-tiny park has itsy-bitsy theft

International

• Pole taken to hospital with screwdriver in head
• Vagina Monologues challenges Indias taboos
• Tense wait for Kenya election rivals
• Papal conclave to begin Tuesday
• China voted for new North Korea sanctions. Will it enforce them
• The World Chess Candidates Tournament Comes To London
• Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Visits Afghanistan
• Kenya audit after count errors
• Bin Ladens son-in-law pleads not guilty to conspiracy charge in New York
• Russian womens rights rally broken up
• Ada Colau becomes voice of outraged Spanish homeowners
• Conclave to Elect New Pope Set to Begin Tuesday
• Papal conclave Vatican announces date for election by cardinals
• Spanish sperm whale death linked to UK supermarket suppliers plastic
• Chavez and Other Dead Leaders on View
• Womens political rights around the world in one map
• Chavez funeral attracts world leaders
• Uhuru Kenyatta poised for victory in Kenyan election
• Hugo Chavez enshrined as comandante eternal
• The world according to Norway
• The worst chart about Canadian drinking

Politics

• Obama meets privately with Jewish leaders
• Marco Rubio Ill Vote To Shut Down The Government Unless Obamacare Is Completely Defunded – Good thing he’s not my congress-critter.
• Budget pain reaches governments number crunchers
• Why its too soon to declare the end of Obamas post-election honeymoon
• Did Rand Paul fear-monger in filibuster
• If not Hillary who
• Sequester hits Interior Department campsites
• 3 questions to ask about US drone policy
• Is Washington working How Congress took a big step forward this week.
• Why Paul Ryan and President Obama lunched this week and why it matters
• The old bulls of the Senate are leaving. But the chamber isnt getting any younger.
• Obama Administration supports journalist arrested after recording cops
• Congress Rushes To Legalize Phone Unlocking But Existing Bills Need A Lot More Work

Science/Space

• Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm
• Study Caffeine Gets Bees Buzzing Too
• Al Gore What Are the Drivers of Global Change
• Richard Bransons space quest nears its destination
• Patient has 75 percent of his skull replaced with 3D-printed prosthetic
• Water dimers detected in atmospheric conditions
• Iowa State developing ideas to save the Earth from asteroids
• Mars rover sleeping through solar storm
• How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals
• 1st African American Man Dates Back 338000 Years
• Alien Alga Steals Genes to Survive Extreme Environments
• Southwest Storm to Deliver Denvers Biggest Snow
• Lab-made supermaterial that could boost computing exists in nature too
• Sensors measure cow flatulence – for science
• How to Make Impossible Wallpaper
• Milky Way s Black Hole to Gobble Space Cloud This Year
• Should you consider reshoring despite the cost
• New type of bacteria discovered in lake beneath Antarctic ice
• Balancing the News
• Electricity Vs. Wood
• Worlds Largest Ground-Based Telescope Array Opens in Chile Soon
• Yes Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs Now What
• Human Nature Sinks HIV Prevention Trial
• Milky Way s Black Hole to Gobble Space Cloud This Year
• Wired Space Photo of the Day Eerily Blank Sun

Financial

• Four years after hitting bottom stocks are roaring back
• Barclays paid 428 staff £1m-plus
• Free-to-play online gaming company Bigpoint gets a new CEO
• Motorola axes another 1200 employees in its ongoing quest to cut costs
• Government/enterprise tech dealer CDW preps for IPO — again
• Google to Pay $7M to Settle WiSpy Case With More Than 30 U.S. Attorneys General
• Facebook acquires Storylane a brand-new blogging/sharing platform
• Google reportedly nears $7 million settlement with states over Street View privacy violations

Historical

• Ancient Reindeer Hunters Fished Ice Age Lakes
• USS Monitor Sailors Remains to be Buried With Honors
• IN PICTURES Postcards From Chicago By Tichnor Brothers
• Civil War sailors buried Their faces are known but who are they

Tips and Tricks

• Theres No Guarantee of Latex Free

Gaming

• Former Epic prez Mike Capps leaves advisory role [update]
• Gold Family Pack leaves the Xbox Live nest
• Natural Selection 2 dev warns of buying fraudulent keys
• Diablo 3s next update to focus on co-op
• Disney Mobiles Bart Decrem on Trying to Find a Happier Ending for Games Unit
• GamesBeat weekly roundup SimCity plagued by server issues Ubisoft does not condone whaling
• EA backpedals on SimCity refunds
• SimCity marketing campaign put on hold EA requests that affiliates do the same

Gadgets

• Barnes Nobles Nook Free Fridays now include apps
• Live from MakerBots SXSW Keynote
• Make This

Law

• Cellphone Records Officer In Texas You May Soon Need a Warrant
• Texas Legislator Introduces Bill That Would Allow Legal Papers To Be Served To Peoples Social Media Accounts
• Apple gets spanked by yet another judge in iPhone location/privacy suit
• New law lets South Dakota schools arm teachers volunteers
• National Post Wants $150 To Quote Articles Even The Parts It Quoted From Other Articles
• Court demands Apple evidence in location tracking case

Patents

• Apple follows Amazon with patent for resale of e-books music
• Google files a patent for backside controls on future Android devices

Technology

• How China censors 100 million tweets per day
• SimCity Blackout Is Just One More DRM Disaster
• 4 Colorado startups about to break into the big time
• Seriously cool hardware startup Lynx Laboratorys 3D imaging camera
• Ready Set Collaboratively Design a 3-D Printed Rocket
• Lets talk about women in tech Silicon Valley still has a gender problem
• Crowdsourcing the cloud to find cures for rare and
• Prenda Law wants IP address of every anti-troll blog reader
• MakerBot announces 3D Digitizer prototype to scan your world then print it out
• 15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Users Experiencing Fan Issues Related to SanDisk SSDs

Internet

• Study Megaupload shutdown boosted movie sales – I’m dubious about this claim.
• Amazon suspends sales of SimCity
• Google Fiber customers now get 3D TV for an extra $5/month
• Nice Laundry uses e-commerce to improve male-sock drawer relationship
• Heres a Marissa Mayer M A Candidate You Havent Heard Of
• Hackers steal over $12000 of Bitcoins from transaction broker Bitinstant

Social

• Georgia town could be states 2nd to require mandatory gun ownership – WTF?
• US airline staff oppose plan to allow small knives on planes
• NYC teen pregnancy prevention campaign comes under fire
• On International Womens Day Five Women In Pop Culture Im Thankful For
• Texas Legislator Introduces Bill That Would Allow Legal Papers To Be Served To Peoples Social Media Accounts – UMM… How about NO!
• Why Cant A Woman Be Pope
• The Power of Connectedness How Social Media Usage Among Chinas Digital Natives Is Evolving
• This Year at SXSW the Next Killer App … Maybe Isnt
• Tracx Social Medias Big-Data Player Lands $3.5 Million From Flybridge Capital
• Facebook adds new Open Graph actions for movies TV books fitness
• Facebook Snaps Up Talent From Social Startup Storylane
• Overscheduled kids anxious parents

Mobile

• The Engadget Show Mini Mobile World Congress with Stephen Elop and more
• Dont Expect a Dirt-Cheap Smartphone From BlackBerry
• PayPal to developers Our new mobile payment dev tools dont stink we promise
• BlackBerry Z10s U.S. Launch Just Weeks Away
• AT T Were totally fine with smartphone unlocking just as long as you pay your bill
• Top Lawmakers Mobile Phone Unlocking Should Be Legal
• Mobile Browsers Help Users Avoid Bloated Webpages

Rumors

• Hulk rumors dispelled by Ruffalo and Whedon
• Rumored Christopher Nolan film Interstellar confirmed for November 7th 2014

Software/Apps

• Googles awesome Field Trip app launches for Apples iPhone
• Samsung exec blames Windows 8 for PC sales decline calls it no better than Vista
• Million dollar appeal for Ultima sequel
• US Navy To Battle Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With New iPad App
• Price Drop The Weekends Best iOS App Deals March 8

Developer

• Ouya opens app store to devs producing mini documentary series

London/Britain/UK

• Met officer sacked for misconduct
• Man denies murdering 12-year-old
• Queen to resume official engagements
• British women slip down scale on job security and equal pay
• Tubes Original Mind The Gap Voice Returns
• VIDEO Will Smith makes surprise school visit
• Drills break into London rail tunnel
• Boy admits killing woman for handbag
• Jury clears fees protest student
• Student injured at tuition fees protest is cleared of violent disorder
• Bus stabbing suspect sectioned
• Man arrested over bus killing is sectioned
• Noma criticised by Danish food authority over vomiting bug

Personal

• Hyperlocal cooties
• When my friends crush flirts with her at Bar Deville
• The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

Odd

• Europe explores how to define the
• Erin go bragh maybe but no flag for Irish pub in Florida
• Erin go bragh maybe but no flag for Irish pub in Florida

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

• I C Wut U Did There

Funny

• When I get invited to a St. Patricks Day Party that starts at 7AM
• Working out
• 10 Essential Items For the Prepared Drinker
• No One is Safe From Criticism
• Just One More Drink
• Just the Tip
• Excuse Me Miss Do You Have a Pen I Could Borrow
• This is a Mystery None Can Explain
• Leaky Toilet No Problem
• Gettin Real Sick Of Your Signs
• I Just… – wow.
• Give This Poor Kid Some Drugs
• Just Taking Precautions – Wow, just wow.
• Sarah is Single… – How True, How True.
• When the Court Doesnt Quite Fit
• Hylian Cake WIN

Chicagoland

• Urlacher makes proposal to Bears
• Police Autistic man missing from South Side home
• When I watch a meter maid write me a ticket
• Senate committee OKs gun-trafficking bill honoring Hadiya Pendleton
• City to get $21 million in settlement for faulty OHare terminal facade
• Two wounded in afternoon shootings
• Motorola Mobility slashing another 1200 jobs
• 12-year-old missing from Aurora
• Stevenson to shoulder more Pace express buses
• Illinois College Grant Program Dries Up Early
• A Downtown Raptor
• Landmarks Commission Grants Portage Theater Landmark Status
• Wilson Phillips to Headline Market Days
• 8 school buses stolen shredded into big pile of scrap
• Help Harper High
• Elgin resident dies in mobile home fire
• IN PICTURES Postcards From Chicago By Tichnor Brothers
• Illinois Republican chairman under fire for pro-gay marriage stance
• Illinois medical examiner puts unidentified corpses online in hopes of finding answers

Total Number of stories: 211

Look for more stories tomorrow.