- Egypt's brokered cease fire between Israel and Hamas has crumbled, with Hamas rejecting the offer and Israel resuming airstrikes on Gaza.
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas has been released by Border Patrol officials after reporting on the border refugee crisis in Texas.
- IBM will team up with Apple to offer phones and tablets pre-loaded with IBM software designed for the corporate enterprise client.
- Boeing says its new design for the 737 will include slimmer seats, redesigned galleys and lavatories, and less padding to get 11 more passengers on board per flight.
- Google is teaming up with pharmaceutical giant Novartis to create "smart contact lenses" that could monitor glucose levels in tears for diabetic patients.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Slimmer seats and more crowded flights, eh? Good, because between nickel-and-diming passengers for every little thing, delayed flights as a commonplace occurrence, and terrible customer service from the desk agent all the way to the flight attendants, the air travel experience wasn't quite horrible enough.
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