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Nemo, Macmillan, and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner - 90 Seconds on The Verge: February 8th, 2013

2013-02-08
it's Friday februari 8 2013 I'm William savona newly appointed creative director of the purple parrots this is 90 seconds on the verge the Federal Aviation Administration has approved test flights for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner the airliner made its first US flight last year but was grounded in January after a series of battery fires called its safety into question the hope is that tests will let Bo and figure out the issue and develop a fix as for commercial flights yeah you'll probably be waiting a while the US Department of Justice has announced that it's settled with McMillan in an e-book price-fixing case five of the big six publishers were accused of conspiring with Apple to raise e-book prices in response to competition from amazon the Macmillan news means that all of them have now settled unsurprisingly they're still one holdout Apple barring any settlement the trial will likely begin in June finally a record-breaking storm is expected to room everyone's plans in the Northeast this weekend it's been called Nemo but that wasn't necessarily supposed to be the case the name Nemo actually came from the weather channel which along with its marketing department decided to start renaming winter storms last November the reason to make it easier to talk about them on Twitter the weather channel says it asked the agency to start naming storms but it took too long to respond whatever you choose to call it the storm is still coming so please be safe that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow for the legend of the Haunted glockenspiel tara has a sound and it's
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