The Big Stories of March 2017

Another month gone by and the Trump Administration is still struggling, cyber attacks continue and Brexit becomes official.

Headlines

This month saw the Trump Administration face more failures. We saw Trump Care failing to be passed by Congress along with the second Muslim Ban being blocked. Not only that but there were investigations into wire tapping claims and Russian ties to the Trump Administration and Climate Change suffered a major set back when Trump undid much of the work put in place by Obama. In the UK we saw a terrorist attack at Westminster while natural disaster claimed lives with landslides in Peru.

Business

On the business front the infamous Brexit decision was given the green light to begin proceedings while Europe's VW continued to face the repercussions of it's emissions scandal with more fines ordered.

Entertainment

Bill Cosby continued his fight against sexual abuse allegations and the Oscars apologized for the Best Picture snafu. Another celebrity hacked nude photo and sex tape scandal broke and Late Show hosts battled for ratings with Trump in their sights.

Technology

March was all about cyber security with Yahoo's security woes seeing 32 million accounts accessed while Apple also came under fire with claims by hackers saying they had accessed iCloud accounts. But of all the big security news it was WikiLeaks releasing details about the CIA's hacking efforts that got everyone's attention. Google didn't fair any better with advertisers pulling out of YouTube due to questionable content but on the bright side SpaceX made history for launching their reusable rocket.

Style

Paris Fashion Week closed off the fashion calendar with big names like Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, Chanel and more while the CFDA nominees were announced for the 2017 awards.

Technology Moving Forward

Technology marched along with new discoveries and announcements while others, the usual suspects, abused technology for their benefit.

Moving Forward

Apple held it's annual WWDC conference where it announced several new developments most notably the new iOS8 and OSX Yosemite and a new programming language called Swift.

NASA was busy when it announced it had discovered a new rocky mega-planet called Kepler-10c capable of hosting life. Amazing new X-ray images of space were released revealing whirlpool galaxy's dotted with black holes. Not keen to leave space to the pro's Google announced it is planning on building a satellite fleet to bring internet to everyone, I guess the balloons weren't up to the challenge.

On the medical front scientist have created the very first 3D printed blood vessels but were shocked to discover 21 new cases of Ebola reported in Guinea.

Some people never learn

The NSA was in hot water again after it was reported that they have been collecting millions of photo's for facial recognition software. The NSA was also blasted by the EFF who claimed that the NSA had intentionally destroyed evidence in a case between the two. If you thought you were in the clear after the Heartbleed bug wreaked havoc a few months back, well sorry, 6 new bugs have been discovered in OpenSSL.

Speaking of the internet, it was reported that the FCC site had crashed after trolls swarmed the site making comments regarding net neutrality thanks to a piece by John Oliver on his new show 'Last Week Tonight'. Turkey came to it's sense when it allowed access to YouTube after a 2 month ban. And lastly Pirate Bay co-founder, Peter Sunde, was arrested in Sweden after 2 years on the run for copyright infringement.

Well that was unexpected

Users of car lift services have been warned after an Uber driver was arrested for kidnapping a women. Speaking of breaking the law, Google allowed people to sign up for the new EU mandated Right to be Forgotten and received over 12,000 requests on the first day alone, allowing any one with a questionable past to be "forgotten".

History was made when US Ambassador, Suzi LeVine, took an oath of office on an electronic device. And finally, in what can only be described as idiotic, the Greek letter Pi was trademarked proving once and for all that the US patent offices need a serious review.