Jamaica plans marijuana dispensers for tourists

Jamaica is planning to install marijuana-dispensing kiosks for tourists in order to regulate a growing drug market and to bring in more government revenue. The new Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is drawing up plans for the kiosks just two months after small amounts of the drug were finally legalized in a country where marijuana has long been part of the culture.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jamaica-proposes-marijuana-dispensers-for-tourists-at-airports-following-legalisation-a7110241.html?source=Snapzu

SF Passes Most Expansive Styrofoam Ban in US

San Francisco on Tuesday adopted the nation’s most extensive ban on Styrofoam, according to the supervisors who sponsored the legislation. The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to outlaw polystyrene foam, better known by its brand name, as it relates from everything from egg cartons to buoys as of Jan. 1, 2017. The old legislation, enacted in 2007, banned the product as it related to food packaging. Now most every product made of Styrofoam — down to the beach coolers sold at the grocery store — are now forbidden in San Francisco.
Read more: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Passes-Most-Expansive-Styrofoam-Ban-in-US--384896561.html?source=Snapzu

Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area

The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA's Dawn mission. The study, published online in the journal Nature, is one of two new papers about the makeup of Ceres. "This is the first time we see this kind of material elsewhere in the solar system in such a large amount," said Maria Cristina De Sanctis, lead author and principal...
Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/recent-hydrothermal-activity-may-explain-ceres-brightest-area?source=Snapzu

The two biggest threats to mankind, according to Stephen Hawking

Professor Stephen Hawking says he believes pollution and human “stupidity” remain the biggest threats to mankind, while also expressing his concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in warfare.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-pollution-stupidity-artifical-intelligence-warfare-biggest-threats-mankind-a7106916.html?source=Snapzu

Holocaust escape tunnel discovery a blow against deniers: “It was dug out by spoons. By people who were shackled around the ankles”

The awful story of the Nazi treatment of European Jews may be most awful in Lithuania, then a part of the Soviet Union in which 95 percent of the Jewish population was killed. But a recent discovery near the nation’s capital, Vilnius, offers a glimmer of something a bit brighter: a tunnel through which a handful of Jews, awaiting execution underground, were able to escape. The tunnel’s exact location was only confirmed this month, as archeologists investigated near the place where 100,000 people...
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/06/29/holocaust_escape_tunnel_discovery_a_blow_against_deniers_it_was_dug_out_by_spoons_by_people_who_were_shackled_around_the_ankles/?source=Snapzu

FBI Arrests Trio for Defrauding Movie Investors of $12 Million

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested three men for allegedly running an “advance fee” scheme that swindled movie investors out of more than $12 million. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan Federal Court charged James David Williams of Calabasas, Calif.; Steven Brown of Santa Monica, Calif.; and Gerald Seppala of Minnesota with wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy. Williams and Brown are also charged with laundering the proceeds of the fraud.
Read more: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/fbi-arrests-defrauding-movie-investors-1201806236/?source=Snapzu

Fatal crash of Tesla Model S in Autopilot mode leads to investigation by federal officials

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is opening a preliminary evaluation into Tesla’s autopilot feature after the fatal crash of a Model S that was in self-driving mode, the electric automaker said Thursday.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla-crash-20160630-snap-story.html?source=Snapzu

Google's giant new trans-Pacific internet cable goes online tomorrow

A new undersea internet cable funded in part by Google and connecting Japan with the US is slated to go online starting June 30th. The joint announcement, made today in a press release from NEC Corporation, says construction and testing on the trans-pacific cable, dubbed "Faster," was successfully completed and the system is now ready for service. The whole line runs 9,000 kilometers and stretches from Oregon to Chiba and Mie prefectures in Japan.
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/29/12061910/google-faster-pacific-ocean-internet-cable-japan-nec-corp?source=Snapzu

Michael Phelps makes history as first U.S. men's swimmer to qualify for five Olympics

Michael Phelps held five fingers high after his hand hit the wall, a sure sign he realized he’d done something much larger than win another race.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/olympics/phelps/bal-michael-phelps-makes-history-as-first-u-s-men-s-swimmer-to-qualify-for-five-olympics-20160629-story.html?source=Snapzu

Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules

A federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled that the user of any computer that connects to the Internet should not have an expectation of privacy because computer security is ineffectual at stopping hackers. The June 23 ruling came in one of the many cases resulting from the FBI's infiltration of PlayPen, a hidden service on the Tor network that acted as a hub for child exploitation, and the subsequent prosecution of hundreds of individuals.
Read more: http://www.eweek.com/security/home-computers-connected-to-the-internet-arent-private-court-rules.html?source=Snapzu

NBC to broadcast 85 hours of Olympic coverage in VR.

NBC today said it would provide 85 hours of virtual reality programing during the Rio Olympics in August — the first large-scale test of VR at an event of this magnitude. But it’s not going to be available to everyone.
Read more: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/06/30/nbc-set-to-broadcast-85-hours-of-olympic-coverage-in-vr-but-theres-a-catch/?source=Snapzu

107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs

More than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter urging Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The letter asks Greenpeace to cease its efforts to block introduction of a genetically engineered strain of rice that supporters say could reduce Vitamin-A deficiencies causing blindness and death in children in the developing world.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over-gmo-stance/?source=Snapzu

Your Favorite Childhood Video Games Are Now Transit Maps

Metroid, Final Fantasy, and Zelda, all mapped out like your neighborhood metro.
Read more: http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/01/your-favorite-childhood-video-games-are-now-transit-maps/425109/?source=Snapzu

Microsoft is offering a free Xbox One if you buy a Surface Pro 4

Summer has just begun, but Microsoft is already thinking of back-to-school season, offering students a free Xbox One with the purchase of a Surface Pro 4 in a deal that runs from now until mid-August. The offer is good only through the Microsoft Store. Users must add both a $899 Surface Pro 4 and a $299 Xbox One to their cart; the Xbox One's price will be taken off at checkout.
Read more: http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/29/12057852/xbox-one-free-surface-pro-microsoft?source=Snapzu

Bill Clinton, AG Loretta Lynch meet on tarmac in Phoenix

Meeting comes as Hillary Clinton is under federal investigation for private email server, but both sides say encounter was purely social
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-bill-clinton-loretta-lynch-meet-on-tarmac-in-phoenix/?source=Snapzu

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87

Toffler was one of the world’s most famous futurists who foresaw how digital technology would transform the world Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose books, including Future Shock, anticipated the transformation brought about by the rise of digital technology, has died. He was 87. Toffler died in his sleep at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, on Monday, said Yvonne Merkel, a spokeswoman for his Virginia-based consulting firm Toffler Associates.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/30/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-aged-87?source=Snapzu

'Tesla Solar' wants to be the Apple store for electricity

Tesla Motors Inc. 's bid to buy the biggest U.S. rooftop solar installer has little to do with selling cars. Rather, it's about solving two of the biggest problems standing in the way of the next solar boom. And perhaps a good deal more.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-tesla-solar-4c5a1a5c-3de5-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb-20160629-story.html?source=Snapzu

Mutilated body washes up on Rio Olympic beach volleyball venue

Discovery is latest high-profile incident amid rising crime, a recession and a major political scandal with barely a month to go until Brazil hosts Olympic Games
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/29/rio-de-janeiro-mutilated-body-beach-olympics-volleyball?source=Snapzu

How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin’s Civil War

A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel, just blocks from Tiananmen Square. They went to meet with the new kingmakers in what has become one of the grandest and strangest experiments in money the world has seen: the virtual currency known as Bitcoin. Against long odds, and despite an abstruse structure, in which supercomputers are said to mine the currency via mathematical formulas...
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/business/dealbook/bitcoin-china.html?source=Snapzu

Puerto Rico will default on $1 billion of debt on Friday

Puerto Rico is going to default, again. The governor of the commonwealth, Alejandro García-Padilla, wrote in an article for CNBC on Wednesday that Puerto Rico would not make some $1 billion in bond payments on Friday as it struggles with the long-term implications of its massive deficits. "On July 1, 2016, Puerto Rico will default on more than $1 billion in general obligation bonds, the island's senior credits protected by a constitutional lien on revenues," he said in the article.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-1-billion-default-friday-2016-6?source=Snapzu

Hackers steal $10 million from a Ukrainian bank through SWIFT loophole

Hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank, according to an independent IT monitoring organization. The Kyiv branch of ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, reported this week that the theft had occurred via the SWIFT international banking system, the organization responsible for managing money transfers between financial institutions worldwide.
Read more: https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/hackers-steal-10-million-from-a-ukrainian-bank-through-swift-loophole-417202.html?source=Snapzu

China’s long march to the Moon began with a bang this weekend

Until recently it was fairly easy to dismiss China’s space program. Yes, China is one of just three nations to launch humans into space, but its technology has always seemed highly derivative of Russian spaceflight architecture. And when a recent article raised the question of whether China might develop reusable rocket technology, one Ars reader offered an amusing yet perhaps not entirely untruthful response: “That depends on how good SpaceX's IT security is.”
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/china-enters-modern-era-of-rocket-technology-may-one-day-challenge-nasa/?source=Snapzu

Batman: Return to Arkham for PS4 and Xbox One Delayed Indefinitely

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has decided to hold back on the release of Batman: Return to Arkham. The title was announced in mid-May, a remaster of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was scheduled for release on July 29
Read more: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/batman-return-to-arkham-for-ps4-and-xbox-one-delayed-indefinitely?source=Snapzu

Google Maps And Earth Just Got A Huge Boost: New, More Detailed And Higher Contrast Images

When exploring the planet on the satellite maps, users will be able to examine cities, fields, forests and seas with more clarity, as the new map has lesser clouds compared to the earlier versions. It's also the only second instance of Google revealing a map that is "cloudless." So now, Google Earth tool users will get more detailed and sharper images of the planet thanks to Landsat 8, the new satellite that has better cameras compared to its predecessor Landsat 7.
Read more: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/167385/20160628/google-maps-and-earth-just-got-a-huge-boost-new-more-detailed-and-higher-contrast-images.htm?source=Snapzu

The Roam-e Flying Selfie drone camera from Australia takes 360-degree shots

Ever feel bothered by the same old boring selfie poses because your hand is permanently attached to your camera? Well this Australian-made Roam-e Flying Selfie drone camera should help you get a bit more creative, if you can stomach the fact that it looks like a flying carrot. Retailing at $399 (around £300) online and AU$499 in Australia , the Roam-e Flying Selfie features a 1080p camera and uses facial recognition technology to follow its owner around and is capable of avoiding objects.
Read more: http://www.cnet.com/news/the-roam-e-flying-selfie-drone-camera-from-australia-takes-360-degree-shots/?source=Snapzu

Ford dealership steals art from indie game Firewatch

A Ford dealership in Quincy, MA spent all day being bombarded with inquiries from video game journalists after blatantly ripping off art from indie game Firewatch. The title, developed by San Francisco-based studio Campo Santo, is set in the Wyoming wilderness and uses a heavily stylized visual aesthetic courtesy of graphic designer and illustrator Olly Moss, who led art direction for the project as a member of the Campo Santo team.
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/27/12045514/ford-firewatch-game-art-copyright-campo-santo?source=Snapzu

IKEA recalls 36 million chests, dressers after six deaths

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA Group is recalling almost 36 million chests and dressers in the United States and Canada that have been linked to the deaths of six children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday. The furnishings can topple over if they are not anchored securely to walls, posing a threat to children, the commission said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-recall-ikea-ab-idUSKCN0ZE2CB?source=Snapzu

Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York

An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful. Dubbed as “the world’s first robot lawyer” by its 19-year-old creator, London-born second-year Stanford University student Joshua Browder, DoNotPay helps users contest parking tickets in an easy to use chat-like interface.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-ai-lawyer-donotpay-parking-tickets-london-new-york?source=Snapzu

Saying publishers’ anti-adblock tactics are illegal, a European privacy advocate plans his attack

Privacy advocate Alexander Hanff knew he had touched a nerve when the angry tweets from publishers and ad tech execs started pouring in.
Read more: http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/saying-publishers-anti-adblock-tactics-are-illegal-a-european-privacy-advocate-plans-his-attack/?source=Snapzu

5,300 U.S. water systems are in violation of lead rules

Eighteen million Americans live in communities where the water systems are in violation of the law. Moreover, the federal agency in charge of making sure those systems are safe not only knows the issues exist, but it's done very little to stop them, according to a new report and information provided to CNN by multiple sources and water experts. "Imagine a cop sitting, watching people run stop signs, and speed at 90 miles per hour in small communities and still doing absolutely nothing about it...
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/epa-lead-in-u-s-water-systems/index.html?source=Snapzu

‘Game Of Thrones’ Ratings Hit Series High With Season 6 Finale

Game of Thrones’ Season 6 finale had revenge, hollowed monarchies, a lot of death, parentage revelations and new alliances packing its nearly 70-minute run on June 26. The David Benioff and D.B. Weiss written “The Winds of Winter” episode also had 8.89 million viewers – an all-time high for the HBO series. With this season having sped ahead of the George R.R. Martin books on which the blockbuster series has been based, Sunday’s finale was up 16% over the war heavy “Battle of the Bastards” episode of June 19. The Miguel Sapochnik directed Season 6 ender was also up 10% from the David Nutter...
Read more: http://deadline.com/2016/06/game-of-thrones-ratings-record-high-season-6-finale-lena-headey-veep-hbo-1201779999/?source=Snapzu

State Supreme Court Finds Dogs Are "Sentient Beings," Not Mere Property, In Landmark Ruling

This is a MAJOR victory for animals.
Read more: http://barkpost.com/oregon-court-finds-dogs-are-sentient-beings/?source=Snapzu

Canada, Mexico move to improve ties as U.S. election looms

Canada and Mexico agreed to settle a pair of protracted bilateral disputes on Tuesday in the run-up to a U.S. presidential election in November that could shake ties between the three North American nations. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said starting Dec. 1, Canada would scrap rules obliging Mexican visitors to obtain visas. The former Conservative government imposed the restrictions in 2009 to stop what it said were bogus asylum claims.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-mexico-idUSKCN0ZE220?source=Snapzu

Secretive Alphabet division aims to fix public transit in US by shifting control to Google

Sidewalk Labs, a secretive subsidiary of Alphabet, wants to radically overhaul public parking and transportation in American cities, emails and documents obtained by the Guardian reveal. Its high-tech services, which it calls “new superpowers to extend access and mobility”, could make it easier to drive and park in cities and create hybrid public/private transit options that rely heavily on ride-share services such as Uber. But they might also gut traditional bus services and require cities to invest heavily in Google’s own technologies, experts fear.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/27/google-flow-sidewalk-labs-columbus-ohio-parking-transit?source=Snapzu

In Pentagon bomb squad, an investigation and a fight to stave off financial ruin

The Pentagon bomb squad's pay was effectively cut 25 percent. By Dan Lamothe.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/06/28/in-pentagon-bomb-squad-an-investigation-and-a-fight-to-stave-off-financial-ruin/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_bombsquad-8a-stream:homepage/story?source=Snapzu

Excitement Builds for the Possibility of Life on Enceladus

Saturn’s frozen moon Enceladus is a tantalizing world—many scientists are increasingly convinced it may be the best place in our solar system to search for life. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, has made intriguing observations of icy jets spewing from a suspected underground liquid ocean on the mysterious world that might be hospitable to alien life. Cassini’s tour is due to wind down in 2017, and scientists badly want to send a dedicated mission to Enceladus to look for signs of life. In fact, some have already started seriously thinking about exactly how they might do this—including planetary scientist Carolyn Porco...
Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/excitement-builds-for-the-possibility-of-life-on-enceladus/?source=Snapzu

Apple granted patent for way to stop iPhones from taking photos at concerts or sensitive locations

One of the things that really spoils live concerts these days is that half the people there don’t seem to want to watch it live at all – they’d rather watch it through their phone screen, holding the device up and blocking the view of those behind them. This is a problem Apple is seeking to solve in a patent first applied for in 2011 and granted today.
Read more: http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/28/apple-patent-infra-red-block-photos/?source=Snapzu

37,000-year-old skull from Borneo reveals surprise for scientists

A new study of the 37,000-year old remains of the "Deep Skull" - the oldest modern human discovered in island South-East Asia - has revealed this ancient person was not related to Indigenous Australians, as had been originally thought. The Deep Skull was also likely to have been an older woman, rather than a teenage boy. The research, led by UNSW Australia Associate Professor Darren Curnoe, represents the most detailed investigation of the ancient cranium specimen since it was found in Niah Cave in Sarawak in 1958.
Read more: http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2016/article/37-000-year-old-skull-from-borneo-reveals-surprise-for-scientists?source=Snapzu

Texas Mom Who Killed 2 Daughters Called 'Family Meeting' Before Shootout

A Texas mother who shot her two daughters­­ to death on her husband's birthday last week had called "a family meeting" before the shootout, authorities said Monday. Christy Sheats, 42, was then killed by a police officer after she allegedly refused to drop a .38-caliber handgun. In a statement, the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office said that on Friday afternoon, Christy gathered her children, 22-year-old Taylor and 17-year-old Madison, and her husband, Jason, who had just turned 45, in the living room of their home west of Houston.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-mom-who-killed-daughters-called-family-meeting-shootout-n599961?source=Snapzu

British pound could hit history-making dollar parity by end of 2016

Investors should prepare for the British pound to hit parity with the U.S. dollar by the end of the year or early in 2017, said at least one analyst — and should parity happen, it’ll be a first. After last week’s surprise U.K. vote to exit the European Union trading bloc, sterling fell more than 12% against the dollar on Friday before trimming some of its unprecedented drop late in the U.S. trading day. But bears regained the upper hand on Monday, sending the currency to a fresh 30-year low at $1.3121.
Read more: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/british-pound-could-hit-history-making-dollar-parity-by-end-of-2016-2016-06-27?source=Snapzu

Explosions hit main airport in Istanbul

Two explosions hit Istanbul's main international airport on Tuesday, wounding several people, a Turkish official said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks in Turkey's biggest city this year.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-blast-idUSKCN0ZE2J1?source=Snapzu

A.I. Downs Expert Human Fighter Pilot In Dogfights

In the military world, fighter pilots have long been described as the best of the best. As Tom Wolfe famously wrote, only those with the "right stuff" can handle the job. Now, it seems, the right stuff may no longer be the sole purview of human pilots. A pilot A.I. developed by a doctoral graduate from the University of Cincinnati has shown that it can not only beat other A.I.s, but also a professional fighter pilot with decades of experience. In a series of flight combat simulations, the A.I. successfully evaded...
Read more: http://www.popsci.com/ai-pilot-beats-air-combat-expert-in-dogfight?source=Snapzu

Tetris gets trilogy as story 'too big' to fit into single film

The adaptation of the iconic videogame, first announced in 2014, is becoming a trilogy – but not for financial reasons, says producer Larry Kasanoff
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/28/tetris-films-trilogy?source=Snapzu

Legendary Tennessee Coach Pat Summitt Dies at 64

Pat Summitt won more games than any men's or women's coach in college basketball history.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaw/2016/06/28/pat-summitt-dies-age-64-tennessee-coach-obit-alzheimers/86406296/?source=Snapzu

Volkswagen's U.S. diesel emissions settlement to cost $15 billion

Volkswagen AG's settlement with nearly 500,000 U.S. diesel owners and government regulators over polluting vehicles is valued at more than $15 billion cash, two sources briefed on the matter said on Monday. The settlement, to be announced on Tuesday in Washington, includes $10.033 billion to offer buybacks to owners of about 475,000 polluting vehicles and nearly $5 billion in funds to offset excess diesel emissions and boost zero emission vehicles, the sources said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-settlement-idUSKCN0ZD2S5?source=Snapzu

Helium Discovery a 'Game-Changer'

Scientists say they have found a large helium gas field in Tanzania, amid concerns global supplies are running out.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36651048?source=Snapzu

Styx slated to play Harrah’s Cherokee in October

Styx is scheduled to play Harrah's Cherokee Event Center on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7:30pm. NC
Read more: https://theonefeather.com/2016/06/styx-slated-to-play-harrahs-cherokee-in-october/?source=Snapzu

Humiliation and rage: how toxic masculinity fuels mass shootings

Mass shootings have one thing in common: toxic masculinity. Where does it come from and what can be done to stop it?
Read more: https://aeon.co/essays/humiliation-and-rage-how-toxic-masculinity-fuels-mass-shootings?source=Snapzu

India's $4 smartphone arrives June 30th

We wouldn't blame you for thinking that the $4 Indian smartphone was just a pipe dream, but it's apparently quite real. Ringing Bells tells the Indian Express that its ultra low-cost Freedom 251 (named based on its price in rupees) will start shipping on June 30th, with nearly 200,000 units in the early batch. As before, the hardware is no great shakes. You're looking at a 4-inch 960 x 540 screen, a modest 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of memory, 8GB of expandable storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 3.2-megapixel front cam -- it's even running Android 5.1 instead of 6.0. Price really is the selling point here.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/26/india-4-dollar-smartphone-ships/?source=Snapzu

Booze & books! Barnes & Noble to serve beer & wine

Take that, Amazon! Barnes & Noble hopes that booze will lure book lovers back to its stores. Barnes & Noble announced Thursday that it planned to open four new concept stores this fiscal year that will have an expanded food menu -- and also serve beer and wine. But no vodka. Sorry, Chelsea Handler. The first store will open in Eastchester, NY in October. Three more are set to open at the Edina Galleria in Edina, MN, the Palladio in Folsom, CA, and at One Loudon in Loudon, VA.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/24/investing/barnes-and-noble-beer-wine-alcohol-booze/?source=Snapzu