Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.
Big News
- Britain Says Equine Drug May Have Entered Food Chain
- 12 cruises canceled on troubled Carnival cruise ship +video
- Three men arrested in horsemeat investigation
- Scientists Detail Severe Future Impacts of Climate Change
General News
- Finally a Beer Glass Just for IPAs
- Why Married People Are So Smug
- VIDEO How celebs are marking Valentines Day
- Next for Carnival Triumph cruise passengers A 2-hour bus ride and $500.
- Comcasts NBCUniversal Deal One Era Ends Another Begins
- Bookstore sales dropped just a bit in 2012 says the US Census Bureau
- New York Universitys Labs Rebuild After Sandy
- New York City Mayor Seeks to Ban Styrofoam
International
- Mira Sorvino fights human trafficking
- Ukraine plane crash kills Champions League fans
- No radiation from N Korea test
- New Zealand Police To Roll Out 9900 iPhones And iPads To Frontline Officers
- Nineteen dead in Pakistan attacks
- Small Crew Tows Carnival Cruise Line Ship Toward Port
- Israels Prisoner X driven to suicide by interrogation lawyer suggests
- VIDEO Backpacker missing in outback
- Pentagons $400 Billion F-35 Runs Into Turbulence
- Pope says he will be hidden to the world after resignation
- A bad day for the Iranian nuclear crisis
- Teenager dies during pro-democracy protests in Bahrain
- Google countersues BT over alleged IP networking patent violations
- Sesame Street eyes one billion YouTube views
Politics
- Obama proposes $9/hour minimum wage. OK says business owner.
- Democrat or Republican … Who Buys Generic
Obits
Health
- Use of Morning-After Pill Is Rising Report Says
- Synthetic Marijuana Harms Kidneys of 16 Users CDC Reports
- Do get mad The upside of anger
Science/Space
- Lab rats acquire sixth sense
- Climate-change mitigation is high risk for government report says
- To Drink or Not to Drink
- Freaky Ways Animals Woo Mates With Gifts
- How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment Part 2 of 2
- Animals Love Lives Look a Lot Like Ours
- Next Private Spacecraft Launch to Space Station Set for March 1
- Earthquake Strikes Siberia
- Arctic Ice Melt Speeds Up Algae Growth
- The Poisonous Chemistry of Chocolate
- President Obama calls for a new Space Race in R D funding but dont expect a moonshot
Financial
- North Carolina Approves Benefit Cuts for Unemployed
- Department of Justice clears Random House-Penguin merger in the U.S.
- DealBook Buffett in $23 Billion Deal for Heinz as Big Mergers Revive
- GM profits up despite European loss
- Barnes Noble warns of worse-than-expected losses for Nook division
Historical
- Rare Warhol polaroids go on show
- Three centuries of the dating industry
- LBJ love letters Romance in a time without Twitter
- Library of Congress unveils plan to preserve early US sound recordings
Gaming
- Company of Heroes movie will arrive on DVD Blu-ray Feb. 26
- Empire Strikes Back with pinball table
- Animal Crossing New Leaf coming June 9
- Wii Street U now available free for a limited time
- Tamagotchi returns 90s toy becomes Android app
- New Mario and Donkey Kong Dillon and more headed to 3DS eShop
- Hyrule Historia is currently the bestselling book on Amazon despite its niche appeal
Reviews
Law
- New Book About Data Mining To Find Love Online Has Author Admit To Possible CFAA Violations
- Bizarre Attribution Troll Bullies Twitter Users Into Compliance With Baseless Legal Threats
Patents
Technology
- Elon Musks Data Doesnt Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery
- Self-driving car given UK test run
- HP bids adieu to WebOS Windows RT and says hello to Android
- The computer that never crashes
- Largest fake prime number holds 300 billion digits
- Tesla Publishes Vehicle Log from Harsh NYT Model S Review
- Tegra 4 Shipment Date Still Q2 2013
Internet
- Marissa Mayer Hints That Yahoo Could Go Social
- Skype calls now equivalent to one-third of global phone traffic
Social
- Kids ask the darndest things at White House STEM event
- Is Closeness in Couples Overrated
- Valentines Day Is dating at work a good idea
Mobile
Software/Apps
- Verizon now rates apps by how much data battery life they consume
- Service packs are not a thing of the past for Microsoft Office
- Microsoft leaving $2.5 billion per year on the table by holding back Office from iPad
- Apple says iOS 6.1 Exchange bug will be zapped in upcoming release
- Photoshop v1.0.1 released free to everyone including Australians
- Mozilla Firefox Windows 8 style browser released hands-on
Security
Developer
- Web Content Optimization Setting Weights And Styles With The @font-face Declaration
- Improve Your Websites Accessibility With the W3Cs Guide to Using ARIA
- A world of hurt after McAfee mistakenly revokes key for signing Mac apps
London/Britain/UK
- Bakerloo southbound extension
- Prince Charles to edit Countryfile
- A Chorus Line returns to West End
- Bangladeshi Londoners bid for glory
- Calls to speed up Heathrow review
- NHS whistleblower claims he was forced to quit then gagged
- Home repossessions lowest since 2007
- Horsemeat scandal deepens as minister says bute may be in food chain
- Men guilty of faking 1000 marriages
- Jon Venables Twitter photographs investigated
- Tax avoidance firms will be banned from major government contracts
- Britain Says Equine Drug May Have Entered Food Chain
- Immigrants too often taking advantage of UK public services says Cameron
- Bloody Sunday families £50000 offer
- Scottish Highland avalanche leaves two people unaccounted for
- Woman dies after lorry strikes house
- Unauthorised horse passports issued
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
- Chubby Checker sues Hewlett-Packard over app to measure penis size
- Bill would ban muni broadband if one home in census tract gets 1.5Mbps – This is completely wrong. I think Municipal Broadband should be legally available EVERYWHERE. PERIOD. END OF FUCKING STORY.
Chicagoland
- Lawmakers propose more transparency on town debt
- Judge halts OHare convention center project
- CPS chief releases list of 129 schools that could close — West Siders vow to fight
- Lincoln Park Zoo wants you to choose names for Sichuan takin babies
- Mayor Cubs and rooftop owners need to seize a deal
- Ex-Dixon comptroller gets 19 1/2 years for $54 million fraud
- Expat from 1-800-Flowers Goes Solo Opens New Flower Shop in Bucktown
- NIU remembers mass shooting
- Aurora man charged with teens murder appears in court
- Stricken cruise ship reported awash in raw sewage nears port
Total Number of stories: 116
Look for more stories tomorrow.
