We lost one of the greatest minds ever this week in Stephen Hawking. Not only a genius, but also a pop culture icon. Many in the US also changed their clocks this week, something we in Arizona don’t ever do. We also got the start of March Madness and bracket mania. Rock Chalk Jayhawk! You’ll find stories on those topics and more below. Click the headlines to read the stories of interest. Also check out the tool at the bottom to create a cool graphic.

• Truth or Lies? False tweets spread like wildfire, real news lags, study confirms
• Your quote tweets make bad tweets worse. Do this instead
• How a Chicago Dive Bar Exposed Corruption and Changed Journalism
• March Madness: Analytics are making picking winning brackets easier
• Apple’s answer to crumb-jammed keyboards? Crush debris, then blast it out
• Break up with Apple: The Pixel 2 is the best iPhone upgrade
• The World Wide Web at 29: Tim Berners-Lee talks weaponization and big tech
• This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went
• Thomas Guide maps: The rise and fall of Los Angeles’ directional holy grail
• Alexa calling and messaging comes to tablet devices
• Big Bezos: Amazon Alexa controls my entire freakin’ house
• 12 Surprising Effects of Daylight Saving Time (thankfully Arizona doesn’t have DST)
• ‘Fortnite’ God Ninja Is Making At Least $350,000 A Month From Twitch Subscriptions
• The Story of the Invention of the Potato Chip is a Myth
• Calif. weighs toughest net neutrality law in US—with ban on paid zero-rating
• Stephen Hawking is only dead in this universe
• Remembering Stephen Hawking: 5 things to know about the legendary physicist
• Stephen Hawking: How an Astrophysicist Became a Global Pop-Culture Icon
• Star Trek’s Klingon language comes to Duolingo
• In 2017, Google removed 3.2B ‘bad ads’ and blocked 320K publishers, 90K sites, 700K mobile apps
• Here’s a Playlist of Songs You Know But You Can’t Name
• IoT attacks are getting worse — and no one’s listening
• What Album Covers Leave Out

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