Ukraine Votes [Live]

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen. From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
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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

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

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

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

Auschwitz Memorial asks visitors to stop posing for photos on rail lines

Learn some manners.
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'Fake' Botticelli painting is real deal

A supposed copy of a 15th Century masterpiece is actually found to have been created in his studio.
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More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods

At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water this month, satellite data analyzed by Gro Intelligence for Reuters showed.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-floods-exclusive/exclusive-more-than-1-million-acres-of-u-s-cropland-ravaged-by-floods-idUSKCN1RA2AW?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

Silicon Valley’s Forgotten Unicorn

Right now the tech world is abuzz with rumours, speculation, and anticipation for the graduating class of 2019 unicorns. Airbnb, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, Uber, and a handful of other tech unicorns are all considering or preparing for 2019 IPOs. But there’s one unicorn that nobody is talking about, and it’s the most profitable one of them all.
Read more: https://thespring.io/investing/silicon-valleys-forgotten-unicorn/?source=Snapzu

People expect feminist women to look masculine and feminist men to look feminine

Feminist women are visually stereotyped as more masculine while the opposite is true for feminist men, according to new research published in the journal Sex Roles. The researchers noted that feminist women are often derided for being unattractive or manly. Their study aimed to uncover whether it was “possible that these associations can be observed not only in the form of verbal stereotypes but also in the way people visually represent feminists at a fundamental, perceptual level?”
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2019/03/people-expect-feminist-women-to-look-masculine-and-feminist-men-to-look-feminine-53404?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

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

US woman kidnapped in Afghanistan says husband's abuse was just like captors'

Caitlan Coleman says her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, was violent towards her before, during and after their kidnapping
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/caitlan-coleman-joshua-boyle-taliban-hostage-abuse-trial?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

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

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

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

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

After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

For months now we've all heard the refrain: Article 13 (now Article 17) of the EU Copyright Directive would not require filters. We all knew it was untrue. We pointed out many times that it was untrue, and that there was literally no way to...
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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

FTC launches probe into the privacy practices of several broadband providers

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced it would be conducting an investigation into the privacy practices of several internet service providers. The inquiry comes only a month after the FTC formed its Technology Task Force to look into tech-related…
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Supervillains React to Betsy DeVos’s Proposal to Gut Funding For the Special Olympics

FFS. By Ilana Gordon.
Read more: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/supervillains-react-to-betsy-devoss-proposal-to-gut-funding-for-the-special-olympics?source=Snapzu

In Saudi trial, detained women speak of torture, abuse

Eleven women responded to charges that rights groups say include contact with international media and human rights groups, in the second hearing of a high-profile trial that foreign reporters and diplomats are barred from attending.
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/20190328-saudi-trial-detained-women-speak-torture-abuse?source=Snapzu

EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021

Leave your plastic at home on your next European vacation.
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The French must drink less wine, say health officials

Health agency advises no more than two glasses a day to cut down alcohol-related disease risk
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/27/the-french-must-drink-less-wine-say-health-officials?source=Snapzu

Budget airline Wow Air collapses and cancels all flights, stranding passengers

Icelandic airline Wow Air has ceased operations and says stranded passengers should seek "rescue fares."
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285262/budget-wow-air-collapses-flights-cancelled-stranded-passengers?source=Snapzu

The colossal problem with universal basic income

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The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208 Million. It’s Collected $6,790.

America’s telecommunications regulators have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims. But years later, little money has been collected.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6-790-11553770803?source=Snapzu

Garfield phones mystery solved after 35 years

For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.
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Pair who hid Ed Snowden granted refugee status, will live in Montreal

“Now we are permanent residents in Canada and we are safe and free,” Vanessa Mae Rodel said. “Thank you Canada and Quebec.” By Tom Blackwell.
Read more: https://montrealgazette.com/news/canada/canada-grants-refugee-status-to-some-asylum-seekers-who-hid-edward-snowden-in-hong-kong/wcm/eee725d2-f735-45e5-b53a-762d5196f87d?source=Snapzu

Denver votes to remove taxes from tampons, pads

Feminine hygiene products are going to be a little cheaper in Denver starting in July after the city council voted Tuesday night to get rid of a 'tampon tax.' The Denver City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to remove a local sales tax on feminine products sold within the city. The 'tampon tax' bill will get rid of the city’s 4.3 percent tax on products like tampons and pads. Consumers will still be required to pay state taxes on feminine hygiene products.
Read more: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/denver-votes-to-remove-taxes-from-tampons-pads/73-7da3aa23-9c03-4eac-abaf-b6ca13e46484?source=Snapzu

Black attorney gets detained because sheriff thinks he's just pretending to be a lawyer

“There is no plausible explanation other than racial bias,” said Andrew D. Freeman of Brown, Goldstein & Levy, an attorney for James. The law firm refers to the incident as "lawyering while black" in a press release.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/black-attorney-gets-detained-b.html?source=Snapzu

All hail regular guy Keanu Reeves, king of the airport

Celebrities, the sparkling gods of our age, do not seem like they should be able to operate like normal people. More used to having stuff done for them than doing stuff themselves, we all just sort of assume that, say, Brad Pitt or Matt Damon would be an absolute nightmare to be around if their car broke down and nobody was around to fix it.
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Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX system baffles some involved in developing the jet

Boeing has long embraced the power of redundancy to protect its jets and their passengers from a range of potential disruptions, from electrical faults to lightning strikes. The company typically uses two or even three separate components as fail-safes for crucial tasks to reduce the possibility of a disastrous failure. Its most advanced planes, for instance, have three flight computers that function independently, with each computer containing three different processors manufactured by different companies.
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/a-lack-of-redundancies-on-737-max-system-has-baffled-even-those-who-worked-on-the-jet/?source=Snapzu

Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks

No Clippy pranks this year.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283674/microsoft-april-fools-day-ban-pranks-internal-memo?source=Snapzu

Monica Lewinsky has some choice words about the differences between the Mueller and Starr reports

Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr wasted no time sharing his report on former President Bill Clinton with America
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2019/03/27/monica-lewinsky-has-some-choice-words-about-the-differences-between-the-mueller-and-starr-reports_partner/?source=Snapzu

U.S. trade deficit narrows sharply as exports rebound

The U.S. trade deficit dropped more than expected in January likely as China boosted purchases of soybeans, leading to a rebound in exports after three straight monthly declines.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-tradefigures/us-trade-deficit-narrows-sharply-as-exports-rebound-idUSKCN1R81BW?source=Snapzu

IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit

IBM has let go more than 20,000 U.S. workers over age 40 in the past six years, lawsuit claims.
Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/27/ibm-purged-gray-hairs-and-old-heads-as-it-launched-millennial-corps-lawsuit/?source=Snapzu

Male Birth Control Pill Passes Human Safety Tests

A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according to researchers at two institutions testing the drug. The Phase 1 study results was presented Sunday, March 24 at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in New Orleans, La.
Read more: https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/male-birth-control-pill-passes-human-safety-tests-317223?source=Snapzu

How the times have changed

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Chicago mayor demands answers after Smollett hoax charges dropped

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said he wanted to “find out what happened” that caused prosecutors to abruptly drop charges that had accused “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett of staging a hoax hate crime to boost his career.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jussie-smollett/chicago-mayor-demands-answers-after-smollett-hoax-charges-dropped-idUSKCN1R81WU?source=Snapzu

Same couple, same bike, same location

50 years apart
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