Ukraine Votes [Live]

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen. From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
Read more: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-live-blog-election-events-as-they-happen/29467569.html?source=Snapzu

Zoe Saldana Reacts to James Gunn Being Reinstated on 'Guardians 3'

Zoe Saldana couldn't be happier that James Gunn has been reinstated as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. ET's Ash Crossan spoke with the actress at the Los Angeles press day for her upcoming film, Missing Link, where she opened up about her reaction to Gunn rejoining Guardians. He was fired by Disney in July after controversial jokes he made nearly a decade ago resurfaced on Twitter.
Read more: https://www.etonline.com/zoe-saldana-reacts-to-james-gunn-being-reinstated-as-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-director-122441?source=Snapzu

Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

Air passengers at a growing number of U.S. airports will no longer need to remove electronics, liquids, and other items from their carry-on luggage at security checkpoints as the Transportation Security Administration rolls out new technology.
Read more: https://about.bgov.com/news/laptops-to-stay-in-bags-as-tsa-brings-new-technology-to-airports/?source=Snapzu

Crispr Gene Editing Could One Day Cut Away Human Pain

FOR JO CAMERON, it takes the sight of blood or the smell of her own flesh burning for her to know that something is very wrong. As the 71-year-old Scottish woman recounted to The New York Times earlier this week, she has lived a life virtually free of pain, fear, and anxiety, thanks to a missing stretch of DNA. Doctors discovered there was something different about Cameron when she came in for surgery and turned down painkillers after the nerve blocker from her operation wore off.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-editing-could-one-day-cut-away-human-pain/?source=Snapzu

Sad music and depression: does it help?

Depression and suicide are major concerns in the 21st century. The World Health Organisation estimates that over 800,000 people die by suicide each year, with the 15-29 age group particularly affected. Interestingly, it is also when we are in our teens and twenties that music seems to play its most important role in our lives. Studies show that adolescents listen to music for approximately two to three hours per day, especially when feeling distressed.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/sad-music-and-depression-does-it-help-66123?source=Snapzu

Does drinking 1 bottle of wine a week raise cancer risk as much as 10 cigarettes?

How many cigarettes are in a bottle of wine? Drinking one 750-milliliter bottle of wine a week is associated with the same lifetime cancer risk as smoking five cigarettes a week for men, and 10 cigarettes for women, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal BMC Public Health.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/does-drinking-1-bottle-of-wine-a-week-raise-cancer-risk-as-much-as-10-cigarettes-2019-03-28?source=Snapzu

Seven years ago today, Samsung beat Nokia to become global #1 OEM

Nokia had enjoyed 14 years as the number one global cell phone maker. The Finnish company’s phones were ubiquitous throughout the late 90s and 2000s, but the rise of the smartphone era would see it stumble. By the end of the first quarter of 2012, Samsung had charged ahead of its rival in global smartphone shipments, and Nokia would continue to nosedive thereafter.
Read more: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-overtakes-nokia-971037/?source=Snapzu

As nation struggles with opioid crisis, workers bring addiction to the job

A new survey found that 23 percent of respondents have used drugs or alcohol on the job.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/03/29/addiction-at-work-as-employees-abuse-opioids-pot-alcohol/3232928002/?source=Snapzu

Florida utility to close natural gas plants, build massive solar-powered battery

On Thursday, Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced that it would retire two natural gas plants and replace those plants with what is likely to be the world's largest solar-powered battery bank when it's completed in 2021. The utility says its plan, including additional efficiency upgrades and smaller battery installations throughout its service area, will save customers more than $100 million in aggregate through avoided fuel costs. FPL also says its battery and upgrade plan will help avoid 1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/florida-utility-to-close-natural-gas-plants-build-massive-solar-powered-battery/?source=Snapzu

Sandy Hook Families Just Proved Congress Lied to Pass One of the NRA’s Favorite Bills

In a stunning setback for the gun industry, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims could proceed toward trial with their lawsuit against Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the assault rifle used in the shooting. The gun lobby had long assumed that gun manufacturers and sellers had almost complete immunity from legal accountability.
Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/sandy-hook-lawsuit-nra-plcaa-bushmaster-immunity.html?source=Snapzu

More adults wrongly think vaping is worse than cigarettes

The study, which appears in JAMA Network Open, finds the proportion of American adults who perceived e-cigarettes to be more harmful than cigarettes more than tripled from 2012 to 2017. During the same period, the percentage of US adults who perceived e-cigarettes to be equally as harmful as cigarettes also increased significantly.
Read more: https://www.futurity.org/electronic-cigarettes-smoking-survey-2022172-2/?source=Snapzu

'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley

When Stanford announced a new artificial intelligence institute, the university said the “designers of AI must be broadly representative of humanity” and unveiled 120 faculty and tech leaders partnering on the initiative.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/28/big-tech-ai-ethics-boards-prejudice?source=Snapzu

US gamer jailed after hoax police call leads to fatal shooting

A US man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for making a hoax 911 call that led to police shooting an innocent man dead. Tyler Barriss, 26, told emergency services he had fatally shot his father and was holding the rest of his family hostage as part of a "swatting" prank. Swatting is a form of retaliation which involves falsely reporting a crime so that a massive police response - often involving SWAT teams - is sent to a target's home.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/us-gamer-jailed-after-hoax-police-call-leads-to-fatal-shooting-11678658?source=Snapzu

NASA Wants To Pay Someone $19,000 to Lie Down For Two Months

Germany's space research program, the German Aerospace Center (known as the DLR), is looking for a woman with the right stuff to stay in bed for 60 days to study weightlessness. Commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency, the study will simulate weightlessness with sleep. Using what's been deemed a "short-arm human centrifuge," scientists hope to test two-thirds of study participants in the best ways to counteract the negative effects of zero-gravity.
Read more: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26990399/esa-19000-lie-down-job-two-months/?source=Snapzu

New Australian laws could see social media execs jailed over terror images

Australia pledged Saturday to introduce new laws that could see social media executives jailed and tech giants fined billions for failing to remove extremist material from their platforms. The tough new legislation will be brought to parliament next week as Canberra pushes for social media companies to prevent their platforms from being "weaponised" by terrorists in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-australian-laws-social-media-execs.html?source=Snapzu

Company Ordered to Pay Woman $459K After Spamming Her With More Than 300 Robocalls

A Tennessee woman has been awarded nearly half a million dollars after a furniture company illegally hounded her with hundreds of robocalls, sometimes more than 10 times per day, even after she asked them to no longer contact her, per court records. Furniture chain Conn’s began contacting Veronica Davis in September of 2015, according to a court filing, about a month after she purchased furniture from its Memphis store that she was to pay off in monthly installments.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/company-ordered-to-pay-woman-459k-after-spamming-her-w-1833683107?source=Snapzu

UK scientists growing 'bacon' in labs

Researchers have grown animal cells on blades of grass - could a slaughter-free bacon supply be feasible?
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47611026?source=Snapzu

Apple engineer who led development of A7 through A12X chip cores departs company

A key Apple engineer responsible for leading development teams working on proprietary processor core designs has left the company after nine years of service, according to a report on Friday.
Read more: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/29/apple-engineer-who-led-development-of-a7-through-a12x-chip-cores-departs-company/amp/?__twitter_impression=true?source=Snapzu

Borderlands 1, 2 and Pre-Sequel remastered for free

Borderlands 3 wasn’t the only looty shooty announcement Gearbox and publisher 2K had lined up today. They also announced yet another re-release of the original trilogy (including Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel), this time with a few technical improvements, some optional 4k textures and some quality-of-life improvements for the first game. The good news for us PC folks is that if you already own the original Borderlands or either of the sequels, these upgrades will be entirely free. Below, a pair of predictably bombastic trailers for the polished-up loot n’ shooters.
Read more: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/03/28/borderlands-remasters-coming-as-free-upgrades-next-week/?source=Snapzu

Valve just surprise revealed its own VR headset called the Valve Index

Unexpectedly on a Friday night, Valve has surprise launched a teaser site featuring a brand-new virtual reality headset, called the Valve Index, that appears to be a device of its own making and not one in partnership with its longtime VR partner HTC. The teaser site spotted by Ars Technica offers no information other than that the Index’s supposed release date is May 2019.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/29/18287734/valve-index-virtual-reality-vr-headset-may-2019-reveal-announcement?source=Snapzu

'Google brain' implants could end school as anyone can learn anything instantly

In an interview with the Daily Star, he explained that he has been working on a revolutionary AI to “personalise education” to enable “anyone can learn almost anything, using AI”. And he believes that within the next two decades, our heads will be boosted with special implants, so “you won’t need to memorise anything”. He told the Daily Star that people won't have to bother typing any questions, as any queries will be answered immediately from "an AI implant", which will result in the end of "parrot fashion" learning at schools.
Read more: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8710836/google-brain-implants-could-mean-end-of-school-as-anyone-will-be-able-to-learn-anything-instantly/?source=Snapzu

Galaxy Fold User Complains About Crease and Poor User Experience

One leaker who claims to have gotten their hands on the new Samsung Galaxy Fold has shared some important details on what we can expect, and they sound pretty troubling for a $1,980 phone. Speaking to Samsung-tracking site SamMobile today (Mar. 27), the leaker notes that the Galaxy Fold will not fold completely flat. When the device is in its folded state, according to the leaker, there's a larger gap near the hinge than at the ends. The person likened the look to that of a binder.
Read more: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/samsung-galaxy-fold-leak,news-29748.html?source=Snapzu

Autopsy determines 7-year-old Guatemalan Girl Died from Sepsis while in US custody

Jakelin Caal Maquin and her father were detained in December, and Jakelin died two days later.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/us/guatemala-jakelin-caal-maquin-autopsy/index.html?source=Snapzu

66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

The beginning of the end started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota. Then, tiny glass beads began to fall like birdshot from the heavens. The rain of glass was so heavy it may have set fire to much of the vegetation on land. In the water, fish struggled to breathe as the beads clogged their gills.
Read more: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to-dinosaur-killing-meteor/?source=Snapzu

It Looks Like Ice-T Will Be In 'Borderlands 3'

Will Ice-T be in the newly announced Borderlands 3? I don't know -- honestly, the possibility never crossed my mind until the 61-year-old rapper, actor, author, and record executive tweeted out there's apparently a rumor he's going to be in the upcoming zany post-apocalyptic looter-shooter. What's weird about this though is that there was no rumor about Ice-T being Borderlands 3, at least none that I saw, and I spend most of my life combing through the rumor mill.
Read more: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/03/29/borderlands-3-ice-t-character-voice/?source=Snapzu

Europe is splitting the internet into three

It’s strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn’t generally need a passport to travel. A smart CEO I know recently mentioned this to me in the context of what’s happening to the internet. The idea of making citizens carry documents to promote border security, he said, dates only to the aftermath of World War I.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283541/european-union-copyright-directive-internet-article-13?source=Snapzu

Breaking Down Seinfeld: 5 things we learned from analyzing every script

Last May marked the 20th anniversary of the finale of Seinfeld. Two decades later, the newly luxurious Upper West Side is nearly devoid of the mom-and-pop businesses crucial to the show’s ecology, and smartphones have fixed the logistical challenges that drove so many plotlines. And yet Seinfeld, both in viewership and cultural memory, endures like few other shows have. Hulu, which has exclusive rights to the show, reports that the average age of their Seinfeld viewer is 27, meaning they were in 2nd grade when the finale aired.
Read more: https://www.ceros.com/originals/breaking-down-seinfeld/?source=Snapzu

Thousands of German teens join Thunberg's climate fight

Thousands of German youths went on strike from school on Friday, joining Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg who has taken her protest against climate change to Berlin. Armed with homemade posters bearing slogans like "It's getting hot in here" or "Our house is on fire" or "You're never too small to make a difference", the teenagers packed into a park in central Berlin to sound the alarm about global warming.
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/20190329-thousands-german-teens-join-thunbergs-climate-fight?source=Snapzu

The US will need a lot more neodymium if it wants an offshore wind boom

Magnets made of rare-earth metals like neodymium are commonly used in the generators found in offshore wind turbines. Turbines with neodymium magnets generally need less maintenance than those without them—an advantage when your turbine is a few miles out from land. But neodymium is costly, it almost all comes from China (which has restricted export in the past to drive prices up), and the environmental impact of extracting it from the Earth is not super.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/the-us-will-need-a-lot-more-neodymium-if-it-wants-an-offshore-wind-boom/?source=Snapzu

Apple AirPods 2nd-gen review: even more wireless

f the many new products that Apple announced over the past couple of weeks, none have been more hotly anticipated than the second-generation AirPods. And yet, the new AirPods are the least new product Apple revealed this month. The new AirPods look so similar to the first-generation version announced nearly three years ago that they are virtually indistinguishable. The design, fit, and sound quality are exactly the same as before, as are many other features. Wearing the new AirPods isn’t any more of a flex than the first-generation because nobody seeing you will be able to tell the difference.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/29/18286012/apple-airpods-2-new-2nd-gen-review-price-specs-features?source=Snapzu

Renewables ‘have won the race’ against coal and are starting to beat natural gas

The rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years, with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power. But new research shows another major change is afoot: The cost of batteries has been declining so unexpectedly rapidly that renewables plus battery storage are now cheaper than even natural gas plants in many applications, according to a report released this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/renewable-energy-coal-natural-gas-a3828fd843cb/?source=Snapzu

Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support

Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Consumers paid up to $300 each for unnecessary services. The FTC yesterday announced that Office Depot and its software supplier, Support.com, have agreed to pay a total of $35 million in settlements with the agency.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/office-depot-tricked-people-into-buying-pc-support-with-fake-virus-scans/?source=Snapzu

Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ride-hailing IPO

Lyft Inc was valued at $24.3 billion in the first initial public offering (IPO) of a ride-hailing startup on Thursday, raising more than it had set off to do as investors overlooked uncertainty over its path to becoming a profitable company.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lyft-ipo/lyft-valued-at-24-3-billion-in-first-ride-hailing-ipo-idUSKCN1R92P4?source=Snapzu

NASA Offering People $19,000 To Stay In Bed For Two Months

Do you want to make money, but never leave your bed? NASA just may have your dream job. According to CBS-affiliate WKMG, researchers and NASA and the European Space Agency are willing to pay 24 participants nearly $19,000 to spend 60 days in bed and monitored around the clock. The 24 participants will be separated into two groups, but housed in a single room. Each person will be propped up at an incline with their feet above their head, reducing blood flow to the extremities, mimicking the effects of being in space. This could, however, lead to numbness and muscle deterioration.
Read more: https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/03/27/nasa-offering-people-19000-to-stay-in-bed-for-two-months/?source=Snapzu

Greenhouse gas emissions in UK fell 3% in 2018, official figures show

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 3% in 2018 as pollution from the energy sector continued to decrease, provisional government figures show. Emissions of the gases that drive climate change have fallen for six years in a row, and are 44% below the 1990 baseline for the UK. Emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, are at the lowest level since before the start of the 20th century, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, government officials said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/28/greenhouse-gas-emissions-uk-fell-3-per-cent-in-2018-official-figures?source=Snapzu

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Expected To Begin Production In February 2021

Earlier this month, it was announced that Disney had decided to reinstate James Gunn as the director of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3. Since then, the question that has been on fans’ mind is when the threequel project would go into production.
Read more: https://pursuenews.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-expected-to-begin-production-in-february-2021/?source=Snapzu

Dogs Can Smell Epileptic Seizures, Study Finds

A new study has found that the human body emits a specific odor during seizures and that dogs can smell them. 
Read more: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=33188?source=Snapzu

NASA proves its space helicopter can fly on Mars

NASA has successfully tested the helicopter that's making its way to the red planet with the Mars 2020 rover.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/29/nasa-proves-its-space-helicopter-can-fly-on-mars/?source=Snapzu

BitTorrent Live returns as a Snapchat-like social media app

BitTorrent is relaunching BitTorrent Live -- a Snapchat-like service it introduced in 2011 and shut down in 2017 -- as a social media platform.
Read more: https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/27/bittorrent-live-returns-as-a-snapchat-like-social-media-app/?source=Snapzu

Here's why Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other investors are pouring billions into clean-tech ventures

As funding for coal- and gas-fired power generation continues to decline, investors long leery of so-called “clean tech” plays are taking a shine to renewable-energy start-ups and other carbon-reducing technologies.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/gates-bezos-and-other-investors-are-pouring-billions-into-clean-tech.html?source=Snapzu

Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware

Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-product-citing-inability-to-meet-its-high-standards-for-hardware/?source=Snapzu

Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

If dollars were votes, newly reintroduced legislation aimed at boosting nuclear energy innovation and advanced reactors would be a winner, thanks to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ strong endorsement today. The world’s second-richest person is the founder and chairman of Bellevue, Wash.-based TerraPower, a startup that’s working on next-generation nuclear fission reactors.
Read more: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/bill-gates-casts-enthusiastic-vote-senate-bill-speed-nuclear-energy-research/?source=Snapzu

The Tick is still perfect TV for an age of superhero saturation

Amazon’s decision to greenlight a 2016 pilot for a new live-action adaptation of Ben Edlund’s superhero spoof comic The Tick is only getting smarter with time. 2019 is expected to see the release of six major superhero films, and caped crusaders can now be found on nearly every major network and streaming service. The original animated version of The Tick was a cult hit in the 1990s on Fox and then Comedy Central, and a subsequent live-action series in 2001 mined some of the same anarchic humor.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285783/the-tick-season-2-review-amazon-prime-edgelord-overkill-alan-tudyk?source=Snapzu

Mathematicians have found a new way to multiply two numbers together

The multiplication you learn at school is too slow for computers, so mathematicians are always searching for better methods.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2198155-mathematicians-have-found-a-new-way-to-multiply-two-numbers-together/?source=Snapzu

How climate change will put billions more at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Climate change doesn’t just shift weather patterns. It can force the migration of plants, people, animals, bugs — and disease. By the end of this century almost all of the world’s population could be exposed to mosquito-borne diseases once limited to the tropics, according to a new study from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-climate-change-will-put-billions-more-at-risk-of-mosquito-borne-diseases?source=Snapzu

Members and tour manager of Liverpool band Her's killed in US car crash

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Audun Laading and Trevor Engelbrektson killed in road accident on way to gig in California
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/members-and-tour-manager-of-liverpool-band-hers-killed-in-us-car-crash?source=Snapzu

New Book Reveals Stunning Misconduct And Dysfunction At ABC’s 'The View'

For years, the public has known that the ABC television program “The View” is a show (and a workplace) filled with drama and chaos. But a new book alleges a breathtaking level of workplace misconduct, unethical behavior and dysfunction behind the scenes of the top-rated television talk show. The book, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of “The View,” written by Ramin Setoodeh, the New York bureau chief of Variety, is packed with details about the show, which premiered almost 22 years ago.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-book-reveals-stunning-misconduct-and-dysfunction-at-abcs-the-view_n_5c9c18c0e4b072a7f6047f97?source=Snapzu

Jodie Comer Is TV’s Most Captivating Assassin

A strange man sitting at the table next to — and apparently within smelling range — of Jodie Comer has just leaned a little farther in, his sense of smell activated by an odor wafting his way. “Excuse me,” he murmurs into her ear, unsure if he should. “What perfume are you wearing? Is it … it smells so familiar.”
Read more: https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/jodie-comer-killing-eve.html?source=Snapzu

Unexpected reason Miami spring breaker went viral

A Georgia man in Florida for spring break went against the grain last week by picking up after hundreds of rowdy fellow college students — and the good deed quickly went viral. Joshua Caraway, 19, a freshman at the University of West Georgia, told news outlets he had come to Miami Beach on vacation with his friends, but that was no excuse to leave the place worse than he had found it.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/spring-breaker-goes-viral-for-helping-clean-up-miami-beach/?source=Snapzu

Lottery winner grateful after good Samaritan returns $273 million winning ticket

A New Jersey man would have missed out on a $273 million lottery jackpot if it wasn't for a good Samaritan store clerk who kept his tickets safe after he accidentally left them on the store counter. Mike Weirsky, 54, scored the life-changing Mega Millions jackpot when Quick Chek clerk Phil Campolo found the pair of $2 lottery tickets that Weirsky left behind after purchasing them last week at the location near his home in rural Alpha.
Read more: https://www.today.com/news/lottery-winner-comes-forward-after-losing-winning-ticket-t150030?source=Snapzu