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United Airlines has canceled some direct flights after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. carriers from Iranian airspace following Iran’s shoot-down of a high-altitude U.S. drone in the area. Other airlines around the world are following suit and avoiding the area. The FAA order comes after Iran shot down an unarmed RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance…

via The FAA Just Banned Flights Over Iranian Air Space. Here’s What Fliers Need to Know — TIME

Facebook and eBay have been warned by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to do more to tackle the sale of fake reviews on their platforms. Fake reviews are illegal under U.K. consumer protection law. The CMA said today it has found “troubling evidence” of a “thriving marketplace for fake and misleading online reviews.”…

via Facebook and eBay told to tackle trade in fake reviews — TechCrunch

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the highly anticipated new mobile game from Pokémon GO makers Niantic and Warner Brothers’ games division, is off to a good start, but it’s not breaking Pokémon GO records. According to preliminary estimates from Sensor Tower, the new game has been installed some 400,000 times in its first 24 hours in…

via ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ reaches 400K downloads, $300K in consumer spend in UK and US — TechCrunch

Technicality in CRB ruling means publishers now owe Spotify millions of dollars The post Spotify: We ‘overpaid’ songwriters and their publishers in 2018, and we would like our money back appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

via Spotify: We ‘overpaid’ songwriters and their publishers in 2018, and we would like our money back — Music Business Worldwide

Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving through space — slowly, but surely — on nothing more than the force exerted on it by sunlight. LightSail…

via Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight — TechCrunch

Unbelievably, tomorrow will mark four years since we lost composer James Horner in a plane crash. I established the Remembering James Horner Blogathon to celebrate his beautiful film scores and in my own small way keep his memory alive. For this year’s blogathon, I decided to look at one of Horner’s final works, his score […]

via Remembering James Horner: The Magnificent Seven (2016) — Film Music Central

Nearly 300 dead bottlenose dolphins — three times as many as normal — have washed up along the beaches of the Gulf Coast this year. While scientists can’t explain the sudden surge, some at least have theories. Since February, 282 bottlenose dolphins have been found across four states in varying degrees of death and decay,…

via Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead at a Disturbing Rate This Year — And Scientists Aren’t Sure Why — TIME

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — It’s not America’s Top 40, but it’s a cutting edge song. Federal marine biologists for the first time have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on the planet, the North Pacific right whale. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers used moored acoustic recorders to capture repeated patterns of calls made…

via Scientists Have Recorded A Rare Right Whale Singing For the First Time. It Does Have the Range — TIME