Start Spreading The News: What You Should Read Today [01/23/15]

The 2016 presidential race is heating up after President Barack Obama's penultimate State of the Union address. Most pundits speculate that Hillary Clinton will run on the Democratic ticket, while Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney may be vying for the Republican nod. New reports, however, indicate that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., may be setting up his presidential campaign. Below are some other developing stories you should follow today.

It Stinks!

Friday means a bunch of new movies premiering in theaters, but are any of them any good? "Mortdecai" features a star-studded cast led by Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow, while "The Boy Next Door" sees Jennifer Lopez return to the big screen. Families are not left out, as Lucasfilm's "Strange Magic" will hit theaters Friday. Unfortunately, all the movies appear to be duds. On Rotten Tomatoes, the three newcomers are all rotten, with "Mortdecai" at 9 percent, "The Boy Next Door" at 15 percent and "Strange Magic" at 13 percent. Chances are people will continue to see "American Sniper," starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, while families may stick to "Paddington."

Using Twitter To Predict Coronary Heart Disease?

New research from the University of Melbourne and the University of Pennsylvania concludes that Twitter can be used as a way to predict heart disease risk and psychological well-being. Angry tweets, using words like "bored" or "hate," were associated with increased heart disease risk independent of other variables. Happy tweets were associated with a lower risk. "We can’t predict the number of heart attacks a community will have in a given time frame, but the language may reveal places to intervene," Johannes Eichstaedt, from the University of Pennsylvania, said in a statement.

Sony Delays Earnings Report

Sony announced Friday it will delay its earnings report due to the Sony Pictures hack, Mashable reported. The earnings deadline was set for Feb. 16, but Sony asked to push the date back to March 31 in an application filed with the Financial Services Agency of Japan. "Financial and accounting applications and many other critical information technology applications will not be functional until early February 2015 due to the amount of destruction and disruption that occurred," Sony said in the filing regarding the damage caused by the hack to Sony Pictures, according to the New York Times' Bits blog.