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Top Stories on My Major Networks - Aug 12, 2014
As of 7:21 p.m. EDT - My Evening News Programs
techmeme.com
- Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself
- Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S.
- Apple in talks with Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts about its HealthKit service
- Microsoft will offer a $499 Call of Duty Xbox One bundle with 1TB of storage, but no Kinect
- Uber says Lyft cancelled 12.9K Uber rides, and Lyft investors pressured Uber to buy Lyft
mediagazer.com
- Times Journalist Injured in Iraqi Kurd Helicopter Crash
- BuzzFeed deleted over 4K staff posts in late April, based on metrics in author profiles
- As the Internet narrows the difference between media and software distribution, technology VCs value BuzzFeed like a tech company
- The Long Fall of Philly Newspapers
- Journalists Face Tear Gas, Police Threats While Covering Protests Against Killing Of Michael Brown
news.ycombinator.com
- Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
- Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs
- 2014 Fields Medals announced
- Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping
- Mono 3.6.0 is out
Circa App
"Top Stories" on the Circa iPhone app at 7:31 p.m. EDT, Tue, Aug 12, 2014:
- Non-lethal rounds fired on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri
- SF mayor hints city may begin mandatory water rationing
- 23andMe uses data from DNA kits for new biotech research
- ACLU, laywer: Chelsea Manning yet to receive hormone therapy
- Tonight's Perseid meteor shower spectacle will be tempered by supermoon
NYT Now
iPhone app:
- After Specter of Coup, Iraqi Leader Seems to Back Off
- Police Silent Amid Loud Protests in Missouri
- After Shooting, Young Black Men Protest Their Depiction
- German Artists Say They Put White Flags on [Brooklyn] Bridge
- Russia Aid Is Sent to Ukraine Amid NATO Fears
Toledo Blade
Local news consumed via the Blade's RSS feed:
http://www.toledoblade.com/rss/local
- Heavy rains pound region
- Council cracks down on house scrappers
- Body pulled from Springfield Twp. lake
- Mayor pleads for U.S., state help
- Architect dies following Maumee crash
another version
"... does his suicide deserve to be the top story on all three networks right now? With all the shit happening in the world today ..."
That must be one of those TV things because below are the top 5 stories on my major networks as of this evening, and a Robin Williams-related story appears only once. I don't understand why people get their news from a television set if it's not the type of news that interests them.
- Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself
- Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S.
- Apple in talks with Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts about its HealthKit service
- Microsoft will offer a $499 Call of Duty Xbox One bundle with 1TB of storage, but no Kinect
- Uber says Lyft cancelled 12.9K Uber rides, and Lyft investors pressured Uber to buy Lyft
- Times Journalist Injured in Iraqi Kurd Helicopter Crash
- BuzzFeed deleted over 4K staff posts in late April, based on metrics in author profiles
- As the Internet narrows the difference between media and software distribution, technology VCs value BuzzFeed like a tech company
- The Long Fall of Philly Newspapers
- Journalists Face Tear Gas, Police Threats While Covering Protests Against Killing Of Michael Brown
- Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
- Errata prompt Intel to disable TSX in Haswell, early Broadwell CPUs
- 2014 Fields Medals announced
- Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping
- Mono 3.6.0 is out
Circa mobile app:
- Non-lethal rounds fired on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri
- SF mayor hints city may begin mandatory water rationing
- 23andMe uses data from DNA kits for new biotech research
- ACLU, laywer: Chelsea Manning yet to receive hormone therapy
- Tonight's Perseid meteor shower spectacle will be tempered by supermoon
http://www.toledoblade.com/rss/local
- Heavy rains pound region
- Council cracks down on house scrappers
- Body pulled from Springfield Twp. lake
- Mayor pleads for U.S., state help
- Architect dies following Maumee crash
NYT Now mobile app
- After Specter of Coup, Iraqi Leader Seems to Back Off
- Police Silent Amid Loud Protests in Missouri
- After Shooting, Young Black Men Protest Their Depiction
- German Artists Say They Put White Flags on [Brooklyn] Bridge
- Russia Aid Is Sent to Ukraine Amid NATO Fears
- You Spoke, We Listened: Introducing the LayerVault Starter Plan
- How Foursquare Onboards New Users
- Re: I'm not happy
- How much does it cost to make an app?
- Ask DN: What is a "Product Designer"?
- Suicides are surprisingly high among middle-aged men in the US
- The “Candy Crush” saga is falling apart—and investors are running away
- Apple’s numbers prove again that Silicon Valley is run by white and Asian men
- Tesla shares just hit an all-time high and it has nothing to do with cars
- These are the international airlines that still don’t have in-flight Wi-Fi
http://pandodaily.com.feedsportal.com/c/35141/f/650422/index.rss
- Yo goes pro
- My Big Break: How Ken Lerer helped Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti turn viral prankery into an $850M business
- As Uber and Lyft sling mud, the campaign to become president of ridesharing is getting ugly
- My Big Break: New Relic’s Lew Cirne on how he raised his first $35k, and thought it would last forever
- Despite media reports, “rebel” plaintiff tells Pando he “never left” the Techtopus wage-fixing suit
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