SanDisk's 400GB microSD card drops down to $190 for the first time ever

SanDisk is a trusted brand when it comes to SD cards, and the company is pushing the limits. Its largest capacity card, the 400GB Ultra MicroSD, is now down to $189.99. This is $40 lower than it normally sells for. It's a Class 10 card with transfer speeds of up to 100MB/s, which would allow you to move up to 1,200 images in just 60 seconds. You can use this in your smartphone, tablet, action camera, and more. Not all devices will recognize the large capacity of this card, so you may want to consider grabbing the 128GB option for $37.99, or the 200GB one or $62.99.
Read more: https://www.androidcentral.com/sandisks-400gb-microsd-card-drops-down-190-first-time-ever?source=Snapzu

Pussy Riot's Alyokhina Released In Crimea

A leading member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, MariaA leading member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, has been briefly detained in Russian-occupied Crimea for the second time in two days. An RFE/RL correspondent reported that police detained Alyokhina and local activist Aleksei Yefremov in a cafe in the Crimean city of Simferopol on February 27. The move came after they were confronted by several men in traditional Cossack military uniforms who called themselves members of "Crimea's self-defense."
Read more: https://www.rferl.org/a/pussy-riot-alyokhina-detained-again-sentsov/29065515.html?source=Snapzu

Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

Even after eight years of economic recovery and steady private-sector job growth, wages for most Americans have hardly budged. It is tempting to think that wage stagnation is intractable, a result of long-term trends, like automation and globalization, that government is powerless to do anything about.
Read more: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-suppressing-wages.html?source=Snapzu

Disneyland Resort workers struggle to pay for food, housing and medical care, union survey finds

In an unprecedented challenge to Walt Disney Co., a coalition of 11 Disneyland unions is calling on the resort to raise its base wage to $20 an hour after a survey of 5,000 workers found many were hard-pressed to pay for food and medical expenses and 11 percent said they experienced homelessness in the past two years. According to a 125-page report “Working for the Mouse,” to be unveiled at a town hall of union members at the Anaheim Sheraton Park Hotel on Wednesday, Feb. 28, federal census and economic data show the average hourly wage...
Read more: https://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/27/disneyland-resort-workers-struggle-to-pay-for-food-housing-and-medical-care-union-survey-finds/?source=Snapzu

Hope Hicks to Resign as White House Communications Director

Ms. Hicks, who had been considering a departure for several months, did not indicate what her next job would be, but she said that she plans to leave the White House in the coming weeks.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/us/politics/hope-hicks-resign-communications-director.html?source=Snapzu

Growing Up in Greener Spaces Appears to Have a Positive Impact on Brain Development, Study Says

When I was just three months old, my family made the move from a busy urban area to a quieter, smaller community. Prior to moving, my parents and siblings spent every summer in said neighborhood—there was a lake to swim in, parks to play on, and plenty of greenery to enjoy, all of which was in sharp contrast to home a couple hours away.
Read more: http://thriveworks.com/blog/greener-spaces-positive-impact-brain-development/?source=Snapzu

Mueller asking if Trump knew about hacked Dem emails before release

The special counsel's team is asking what candidate Trump knew about the hacked Democratic emails and when he knew it.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mueller-asking-what-trump-knew-about-hacked-emails-n851941?source=Snapzu

Coca-Cola, Nestle seek to privatize world's second largest aquifer

Coca-Cola and Nestle are pushing to take ownership of the Guarani Aquifer in Brazil. Named for the indigenous Guarani people, the world’s second largest aquifer lies beneath parts of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina – and it may soon fall under private corporate control. According to Correio do Brasil, private meetings between the multinational corporations and representatives of Brazil’s government...
Read more: https://inhabitat.com/coca-cola-nestle-seek-to-privatize-worlds-second-largest-aquifer/?source=Snapzu

Egyptian singer facing jail for Nile joke

Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab has been sentenced to six months in prison for joking about the cleanliness of the River Nile. Sherine, one of the country's most famous singers - and a judge on the Arabic version of The Voice TV show - told a fan that drinking from the famous river might give them parasites. "Drink Evian instead," she joked.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43217483?source=Snapzu

Obama calls out Facebook and Google and says it's hard to know how long democracy can survive the current political climate

Former President Barack Obama made some revealing comments about the state of political discourse in the US, suggesting last week that tech giants like Facebook and Google were compounding problems. His remarks were captured in an off-the-record speech at a sports conference at MIT. Audio from the presentation was first reported by Reason, a libertarian-leaning publication.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-on-facebook-google-reshaping-democracy-2018-2?source=Snapzu

Students walk out to support teacher suspended over Florida shooting comments

Hundreds of students walked out of class Tuesday morning to support a teacher who was placed an administrative leave for his comments on the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, CBS Philadelphia reports. Timothy Locke, an AP history teacher, was placed on administrative leave after voicing his concerns over security at Cherry Hill High School East. Locke said a similar shooting could take place at the school and said two police officers are not armed on campus, The Associated Press reports.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timothy-locke-new-jersey-cherry-hill-high-school-east-teacher-suspended-students-protest/?source=Snapzu

European Space Agency's ExoMars Orbiter is about to start sniffing the Red Planet for signs of life

In March of 2016 the European Space Agency - in collaboration with Roscosmos - launched The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter sending it on its way to the mysterious red planet that orbits our Sun, Mars. Its mission? To look for signs of life on the Red Giant that has held the interest of astronomers for centuries since first being discovered in the 17th century by Galileo Galilei.
Read more: http://www.insightnewsmag.co/2018/feb/European-Space-Agencys-ExoMars-Orbiter-is-about-to-start-sniffing-the-Red-Planet-for-signs-of-life?source=Snapzu

Serious eye diseases accurately diagnosed through artificial intelligence

UC San Diego researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system to quickly and accurately screen patients with potentially blinding retinal diseases to see if urgent treatment is needed. The system used machine learning to identify macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema within 30 seconds with more than 95 percent accuracy, said Kang Zhang, MD, a professor of ophthalmology at UCSD’s Shiley Eye Institute.
Read more: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/sd-me-ai-eye-20180226-story.html?source=Snapzu

There’s a heat wave. In the Arctic. In the middle of winter.

It’s been downright toasty at the North Pole, at least by Arctic standards. The northernmost weather station in the world, Cape Morris Jesup in Greenland, saw temperatures stay above freezing for almost 24 hours straight last week, and then climb to 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6.1 degrees Celsius) on Saturday before dropping again.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/27/17053284/arctic-heat-wave-north-pole-climate?source=Snapzu

Mystery deepens in case of CDC employee missing over 2 weeks

The mystery is deepening in the case of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who has been missing for over two weeks, as police reveal he didn't get the promotion he wanted before he vanished. "This is an extremely unusual set of circumstances," Maj. Michael O'Connor of the Atlanta Police told reporters today.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-cdc-employee-promotion-wanted-vanished-police/story?id=53387146?source=Snapzu

Scientists Fear for Colombia’s ‘Melted Rainbow’

Ángela Díaz stood on a rock ledge above a creek called Caño Piedras and pointed out an unassuming olive-colored plant growing below. Macarenia clavigera, she said, is the key to the future of this remote region in central Colombia. When the rains come in May, the rivers will rise and the plant will turn a brilliant red. “This plant has the peculiar quality of turning distinct colors,” she said. “You can see it from May to November.”
Read more: https://nytimes.com/2018/02/26/science/colombia-cano-cristales.html?referer=?source=Snapzu

Microbes found in one of Earth’s most hostile places, giving hope for life on Mars

A hardy community of bacteria lives in Chile’s Atacama Desert—one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth—where it can survive a decade without water, new research confirms. The work should put to rest the doubts of many scientists, who had suggested that previous evidence of microscopic life in this remote region came from transient microbes. And because the soils in this location closely resemble those on Mars, these desert dwellers may give hope to those seeking life on the Red Planet’s similarly hostile surface.
Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/microbes-found-one-earth-s-most-hostile-places-giving-hope-life-mars?source=Snapzu

Don't Panic, but Researchers Have Discovered That Stress is Contagious

Researchers have discovered brain cells change following close contact with a stressed individual. Simply put, stress is contagious. Stress can be brought on by big things like existential crises. More commonly, stress comes from trivial, every-day things like walking into a meeting that’s already started. Living in a world dominated by social media, we are constantly forced to compare our lives to those of others. Life is, by nature, unstable and uncertain, which can make stress inevitable. Therefore, it is unsurprising that we find ourselves in the midst of an anxiety epidemic.
Read more: https://edgylabs.com/dont-panic-researchers-discovered-stress-contagious?source=Snapzu

Ferrari fesses up that dealers used a device that changed odometers

Ferrari has acknowledged it knew dealers were using a device that allowed technicians to tamper with odometers of vehicles, according to a memo filed a Florida court this month.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5437837/Ferrari-fesses-dealers-changing-odometers.html?source=Snapzu

Before they went on strike, West Virginia teachers packed bags to make sure kids didn't go hungry

Teachers in West Virginia are striking for higher wages and better benefits, but not at the expense of hungry students. In West Virginia almost one in four children are in poverty. For many of them, free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches are their main meals of the day. Some schools even run Friday pantry programs to feed students through the weekend.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/us/iyw-striking-teachers-feed-students-trnd/index.html?sr=fbCNN022718iyw-striking-teachers-feed-students-trnd0732AMStory?source=Snapzu

China using big data to detain people before crime is committed: report

Barely seven months ago, a senior Chinese official promised that artificial intelligence could one day help authorities spot crime before it happens. In the country's far western Xinjiang region, it's already happening, with the establishment of a system that critics call "Orwellian" in scope and ambition, and which is being used to place people in political re-education.
Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/china-using-big-data-to-detain-people-in-re-education-before-crime-committed-report/article38126551/?source=Snapzu

Comcast challenges Rupert Murdoch with $31 billion bid for Sky

Cable giant Comcast on Tuesday announced a $31 billion takeover bid for Sky, potentially scuppering a previous offer for the European broadcaster from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. Comcast is America’s largest cable operator and the owner of NBC News' parent company NBCUniversal. The firm argued its offer was superior to the bid from Fox. “We believe we are a better fit,” Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/comcast-takes-rupert-murdoch-31-billion-bid-sky-n851481?source=Snapzu

Suspect for Paris terror attacks that killed 130 goes on trial

Hundreds of armed police are guarding the Brussels court where the trial of Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect behind the November 2015 Paris attacks, opens today after his secret transfer from a prison outside the French capital. Mr Abdeslam, a French national of Moroccan descent, is being tried on charges of terrorism, possession of weapons and attempted murder during a shoot-out with police in Brussels three days before his arrest in March 2016.
Read more: https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/paris-terror-attacks/suspect-for-paris-terror-attacks-that-killed-130-goes-on-trial-36567290.html?source=Snapzu

Baidu's voice cloning AI adds gender swapping and accent removal

China's tech titan Baidu just upgraded Deep Voice. The voice-cloning AI now works faster than ever and can swap a speaker's gender or change their accent.
Read more: https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/02/26/baidus-ai-can-clone-your-voice-and-give-it-a-different-gender-or-accent/?source=Snapzu

West Virginia schoolteachers' strike enters fourth day as they protest pay among the worst in the nation

West Virginia's teachers are refusing to go to school for a fourth day Tuesday in protest of pay that is among the lowest in the nation. Teachers are on strike in all 55 West Virginia counties and rallied outside the state capitol on Monday.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/27/west-virginia-schoolteachers-strike-enters-fourth-day-they-protest-demand-meeting-governor-strike-co/376159002/?source=Snapzu

Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence

A memo sent Friday downgraded the presidential son-in-law and adviser and other White House aides who had been working on interim clearances, barring them from top-secret information.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178?source=Snapzu

NRA refuses to answer senator’s questions about funding from Russia

A letter from the NRA denies that any potential Russian funds were used for election meddling.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/nra-moscow-letter-response-ce606fc127ed/?source=Snapzu

Google Says It's Received 2.4 Million Takedown Requests Under EU's 'Right to Be Forgotten' Laws

Google has now been complying with the European Union’s controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years. On Monday, the search giant released an updated version of its annual Transparency Report, which discloses how many and what kind of requests Google has received to delist pages from results and in how many instances the company complied.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/google-says-its-received-2-4-million-takedown-requests-1823347633?source=Snapzu

California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present

California's Department of Motor Vehicles established new rules announced Monday that will allow tech companies and others working on driverless vehicle..
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/california-to-allow-testing-of-self-driving-cars-without-a-driver-present/?source=Snapzu

Medal Table - Winter Olympic Games 2018

The medal count for the 2018 Winter Olympics
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/medals/countries?source=Snapzu

German court rules cities can ban diesel cars to tackle pollution

One of Germany’s top courts has ruled that heavily polluting vehicles can be banned from the urban centres of Stuttgart and Düsseldorf, a landmark ruling that could dramatically hit the value of diesel cars. Environmental campaigners had sued dozens of German cities, arguing they have a duty to cut air pollution to protect people’s health.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/27/german-court-rules-cities-can-ban-diesel-cars-to-tackle-pollution?source=Snapzu

Religion is no longer needed, says Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama says in an interview, "The world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer needed. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether."
Read more: http://www.shivas.net/religion-is-no-longer-needed-says-dalai-lama-in-an-interview/?source=Snapzu

Texas police shoot man who disarmed possible church shooter

Police in Amarillo shot an innocent man who helped foil a possible church shooting. The shooting happened shortly after 9 a.m. Feb. 14 at the Faith City Mission, a faith-based outreach organization. Police said Joshua Len Jones, 35, of Amarillo, barged into a church building at Faith City Mission, pulled out a gun and was holding about 100 congregants and church staff hostage. In the time between when police were dispatched and when officers arrived, a handful of churchgoers wrestled Jones to the ground. One of the congregants was able to grab Jones' gun.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-police-shoot-man-who-disarmed-possible-12704202.php?source=Snapzu

Media Sites That Don't Purge Bots Should Be Fined, Senator Says

Social media giants Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. should be fined if they don’t weed out automated accounts, or bots, trying to influence U.S. public opinion, said Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. “I think that would be a great idea,” Klobuchar, of Minnesota, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when asked whether the companies should face fines if they fail to act after the government discovers the bots. The comments come after the Justice Department on Feb. 16 indicted Russians associated with the Internet Research Agency...
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-25/media-sites-that-don-t-purge-bots-should-be-fined-senator-says?source=Snapzu

'Corporate' Renewed for Season 2 at Comedy Central

Comedy Central has given an early season two pickup to Corporate. The Viacom-owned cable network has renewed the scripted comedy for a second cycle. The renewal arrives weeks before the workplace comedy's season one finale. Corporate, the first of three new scripted series to air on Comedy Central this year, got off to a strong start in January, launching as the highest-rated basic-cable primetime comedy of the 2017-18 season among Comedy Central's core men 18-34 demographic.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/corporate-renewed-season-2-at-comedy-central-1088289?source=Snapzu

Florida Gun Show sees 'record number' of attendees amid gun control debate

Thousands of gun enthusiasts -- more so than ever -- flocked to the Florida State Fairgrounds for the Florida Gun Show event. Organizers say they had a record number of people attend the event on Saturday, Feb. 24, almost 7,000, and expected more Sunday. The manager for the Florida Gun Show, George Fernandez, says they’ve never seen such a big crowd.
Read more: http://www.wtsp.com/mobile/article/news/local/florida-gun-show-sees-record-number-of-attendees-amid-gun-control-debate/67-523267641?source=Snapzu

Melania Trump calls for 'positive habits on social media'

Melania Trump, whose husband is known for the barbs he hurls on Twitter, says adults should be “encouraging positive habits on social media” as an example for children.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/375635-melania-trump-calls-for-positive-habits-on-social-media?source=Snapzu

Police in Washington sell seized assault weapons back to the public

When law enforcement agencies in Washington and other states sell guns they've confiscated during criminal investigations, they're not just selling pistols and hunting rifles, they're also putting assault weapons, including AR-15s, back on the street. Sheriff's offices and police departments across Washington state have sold dozens of AR-15s, AK47s and other assault weapons since 2010, an Associated Press investigation found.
Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/02/police_in_washington_sell_seiz.html?source=Snapzu

Monster Hunter: World Is Getting A Whopping 1,008-Page Official Guidebook

Monster Hunter: World is getting a huge official guidebook that boasts 1,008 pages, full of all the info any Hunter could ask for, and it is releasing next month in Japan.
Read more: http://www.siliconera.com/2018/02/26/monster-hunter-worlds-whopping-1008-page-official-guidebook-releases-japan-march-24/?source=Snapzu

Apple confirms it uses Google's cloud for iCloud

A document contains Apple's first public acknowledgment that it is storing data for its iCloud services in Google's data centers.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-google-cloud-for-icloud.html?source=Snapzu

7.5-magnitude quake strikes Papua New Guinea

A large earthquake has struck the middle of Papua New Guinea. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-7.5 quake hit about 89 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Porgera early Monday in the Pacific island nation. Geological Survey geophysicist Paul Caruso says the quake, which had a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), occurred in a rural, jungle area near a mountain range.
Read more: http://abc7.com/75-magnitude-quake-strikes-papua-new-guinea/3139067/?source=Snapzu

Saudi Arabia FM To German: We Do Not Need Your Weapons, We Will Find Them Somewhere Else

In an interview with German news agency DPA, published on Friday, al-Jubair criticized the German government and called Berlin decision to halt weapons exports to conflicting parties in Yemen “inconsistent”. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were among the top 10 destinations for German weapons in 2017. “If Germany has a problem with supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia, we would not put Germany under pressure.
Read more: http://www.rpfront.com/world/saudi-arabia-fm-to-german-we-do-not-need-your-weapons-we-will-find-them-somewhere-else?source=Snapzu

Apple Moves Chinese iCloud Encryption Keys to China, Worrying Privacy Advocates

Apple has moved encryption keys for mainland Chinese iCloud users to China, potentially enabling much easier access to data for the nation’s heavy-handed authorities and worrying privacy advocates.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/apple-moves-chinese-icloud-encryption-keys-to-china-wo-1823312628?source=Snapzu

US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse

Johan Galtung, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated sociologist who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, warned that US global power will collapse under the Donald Trump administration. The Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University is recognized as the 'founding father' of peace and conflict studies as a scientific discipline. He has made numerous accurate predictions of major world events, most notably the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d7ykxx/us-power-will-decline-under-trump-says-futurist-who-predicted-soviet-collapse?source=Snapzu

Orlando pediatrician arrested for using partial vaccine doses

An Orlando pediatrician posted bond and has been released from jail after being accused of committing Medicaid fraud affecting hundreds of children. The Florida Department of Health said Dr. Ishrat Sohail provided only partial vaccines to more than 500 children, but charged them in full.
Read more: http://wfla.com/2018/02/25/florida-arrests-pediatrician-for-using-partial-vaccine-doses/?source=Snapzu

Box Office Report: ‘Black Panther’ Scores $700 Million Worldwide

Written By: Nick Poulimenakos Ryan Coogler’s game-changing superhero epic continues to shatter records and expectations as it grosses $108 million in its second week at the box office.
Read more: https://talkiesnetwork.com/2018/02/25/box-office-report-black-panther-scores-700-million-worldwide/?source=Snapzu

T-Mobile Brings the Fastest Samsung Phone Ever To the Fastest Network Ever!

Today Samsung is announcing the Galaxy S9 and S9+. Both devices bring iterative designs over the Galaxy S8 – which is not a bad thing. The camera sees significant upgrades with both a new innovative camera sensor as well as an industry first-adjustable lens that can switch between f/1.5 and f/2.4 apertures. Having the same screen and battery capacities as the S8 might seem like a step sideways, but the one thing where the S9 improves on is with the internals.
Read more: https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/samsung-galaxy.htm?source=Snapzu

Tourist questioned over severed head

An American tourist is being questioned by Japanese police after a woman's severed head was found in a holiday flat he was renting in Osaka. Police believe the head, which was found in a suitcase, belongs to a Japanese woman who was last seen on CCTV footage walking with the suspect. The woman, 27, had apparently told friends she was going to see an American she had met on an app. The suspect has allegedly denied any connection with the case.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43190380?source=Snapzu

Police Investigate after Student Writes Essay from White Supremacist’s Perspective

A Tracy student wrote a controversial essay on racism that prompted an investigation by law enforcement. The academic decathlon student was preparing for an upcoming debate and was given an open-ended writing prompt. The Director of Student Services at Tracy Unified School District, Troy Brown, said the students had "to write opposing viewpoints to a topic."
Read more: http://fox40.com/2018/02/23/police-investigate-after-tracy-student-writes-white-supremacist-manifesto/?source=Snapzu

Vladimir Putin Says Russia Needs Blockchain, Cannot be Late in the Race

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that the country needs blockchain technology and emphasized that it is important that Russia does not fall behind in the development and adoption of the revolutionary technology.
Read more: https://www.ccn.com/vladimir-putin-says-russia-needs-blockchain-cannot-late-race/?source=Snapzu