5 things you need to know Tuesday
1. Now the real trial: Deciding if Tsarnaev lives or dies
The same jury that convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all 30 charges involved in the Boston Marathon bombing will decide if he lives or dies. The sentencing phase of the trial begins Tuesday, one day after the second marathon since the bombing and a few days after the two-year anniversary of the attacks that killed three people and left 260 injured. A fourth person, an MIT officer, was killed in the manhunt that followed. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty, but because this is a federal case, capital punishment is in play.
2. 'Mobilegeddon' could affect your business
Search giant Google, which has a 65% market share of Internet searches, is changing the way it ranks websites today, offering better results on smartphones to sites that are "mobile friendly." That means a site that loads quickly and is easy to navigate on a mobile phone may show up in Google search results higher than sites that don't. Check out your website and see if it passes the mobile-friendly Google test.
3. Genetic datashare aims to save more women from breast and ovarian cancer
In a first-of-its kind genetic datashare program, more scientists and labs will look at test results in an effort to improve predictions about which individuals are at risk of developing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. U.S.-based Quest Diagnostics announced Tuesday that it is pairing with the French public health institute to launch BRCA Share. BRCA 1 and 2 are genes that if inherited in a mutated form could predispose some carriers to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
4. Mom and dad are Millennials' go-to bank
Today's young adults are three times as likely to say they got a lot of financial help from their parents when they were starting out, compared to what their parents say they got at the same age – 36% vs. 12% – a USA TODAY/Bank of America Better Money Habits survey finds. Millennials aren't moochers – it's just a lot harder for them to become financially independent at the same pace their parents did, the survey shows.
5. Technology opens the door to a new era of baseball stats
The theory that there can never be too many statistics for baseball fans will be put to the test when the MLB Network reveals the future of baseball analytics during its broadcast of the St. Louis Cardinals' game at the Washington Nationals. Thanks to tens of millions of dollars in new cameras and sensors capable of capturing 120,000 bits of data per second that have been installed in all 30 big-league ballparks, fans will soon be able to look up hitters' exit velocity, fielders' route efficiency, speed and distance, pitchers' spin rates and arm extension and a host of other stats they never before knew they wanted or needed to know.
What else is on our reading list this morning:
Armour: Another Tim Tebow try that is certain to fail
How 'the blob' caused USA's weird weather
Pensions have a $296.1B problem
And, the essentials:
Weather: Severe storms will lash the southern Plains while chilly temperatures spread over the Great Lakes.
Stocks:U.S. stock futures were higher Tuesday.
TV Tonight: Can't decide what to watch tonight? TV critic Robert Bianco looks at The Flash, Forever and a special on the National Mall.
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Contributing: The Associated Press