Science
Xinhua - BEIJING, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- In the eyes of Chinese media, the country's first space docking is not only rocket science, but also a source of inspiration for an imagined space romance. |
Huffington Post - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published its annual Human Development Index on Wednesday, painting a grim picture of the prospects for millions of people in some of the world's poorest nations. |
NEWS.com.au - A MASSIVE asteroid will make a rare fly-by on Tuesday, and although it poses no danger of crashing to Earth, US scientists said this week they are eager for a closer look. |
Inhabitat - While it seems only logical for the UK to include all major transportation emissions in their carbon targets, it turns out this has not been the case. |
Voice of America - November 03, 2011 Team Nears End of 520-Day Isolation Test for Mars Mission Suzanne Presto | Washington An international crew of six has been in isolation since June of last year as part of a real-time simulation of a manned mission to Mars. |
AFP - WASHINGTON - A massive crack is growing wider in the Antarctic ice sheet and could break apart in the coming months, forming an iceberg the size of Brazil, NASA scientists warned Thursday. |
Register - If life ever existed on Mars, it's likely that its longest-lasting enclaves would be underground. "If surface habitats were short-term, that doesn't mean we should be glum about prospects for life on Mars," said Bethany Ehlmann, the lead author of a ... |
Huffington Post - 11/ 3/11 03:31 PM ET AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Fossils of a tiny and previously unknown saber-toothed, squirrel-like creature have been discovered in Argentina, providing new clues to how small mammals lived among dinosaurs more than 93 million ... |
CBS News - The future of the rhino population in South Africa remains under a question mark given the latest data reporting that more rhinos were killed in the past 10 months than were killed in all of 2010. |
Medical Daily - Within decades of finding several teeth over 40000 years old suggest that ancient humans roamed Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought. |
Huffington Post - Before Google Maps, GPS and compasses, Vikings used the sun to figure out where they were sailing. A new report may have unlocked the key to understanding how the Vikings used the legendary sunstone to navigate the seas, even on overcast days. |
39online.com - The Death Star in "Star Wars" reeled in space ships with "tractor beams." So did Captain Kirk's USS Enterprise on "Star Trek. |
Gizmodo Australia - The next time you find yourself buried in rubble, your saviour might not be a keen-nosed rescue dog but rather this terror-inducing robo-arachnid. |
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - Reporters are invited to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Wednesday, November 9 to view a test firing of the J-2X rocket engine, a key component of NASA's Space Launch System, which will carry the Orion spacecraft, its crew, cargo, ... |
Boston.com - AP / November 3, 2011 COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Prosperous countries have not lived up to their promises to help the poor, the UN declared Wednesday, saying poor people often go hungry because of polluted water, drought and other ... |
Technology
Christian Post - Apple has launched a pre-released version of iOS 5.0.1 that will ultimately help provide a solution for the iPhone 4S's battery life problems. |
ExtremeTech - One of the challenges of Microsoft's new Metro-style Start screen in Windows 8 is how to provide the constant “live tile” updates that the design calls for without destroying battery life or crippling ... |
SC Magazine UK - Researchers have discovered a spike in malware infecting thousands of WordPress websites that use a popular image tool. The attacks came to light after French media outlet The Poitou-Charentes Journal began hosting malicious code on its WordPress site. |
GMANews.TV - Half of all spam email was relayed via computers in Asia in the third quarter of 2011, according to a new study by computer security firm Sophos. |
BusinessWeek - A US computer security firm says cyber attacks traced to China targeted at least 48 chemical and military-related companies in an attempt to steal technical secrets. |
SearchDataManagement.co.ukl - Predictions of the second coming of the financial crisis of 2007-8 are common. But before reaching for your Yeats in despair, consider the opportunities that current enterprise technology trends will yield - for those smart individuals with the right ... |
Stuff.co.nz - THE LOANER: Amazon is now offering Kindle owners a chance to take out one book per month from its library. Amazon.com says that it is starting a lending library for Kindle owners, letting them borrow one electronic book per month. |
Reuters - NEW YORK Nov 3 (Reuters) - HTC Corp said its latest smartphone, the Rezound, will be its first US phone to include audio technology from Beats Electronics, a company it took control of earlier this year. |
Washington Post - Online industrial spying by China and Russia presents a growing threat to the US economy and its national security, the top counterintelligence agency said Thursday, abandoning the caution American officials typically display when asked to name the ... |
Register - Google has tweaked its search algorithm to give more up-to-the-minute results for searches, improving the likelihood of more recent news and reviews. |
Escapist Magazine - Rejoice, ye claustrophobics. Rockstar has confirmed that the Grand Theft Auto series is returning to the fictional state of San Andreas, and promises that the upcoming GTA V will be the "biggest and most ambitious" game in the franchise. |
Toronto Star - NEW DELHI—Research In Motion's Indian unit said on Thursday its managing director, Frenny Bawa, had left the company to pursue other interests and the BlackBerry maker has appointed an interim replacement. |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Jeremy Singer-Vine If you've been on a social network today (or read TechCrunch, Mashable, the Huffington Post or Hacker News), you've likely heard about Google's barrel-roll Easter egg: search for “do a barrel roll,” and the page spins, ... |
Ninemsn - Yahoo has begun to distribute an iPad magazine that illuminates the Internet company's ambitions and the chronic hiccups that have thrown its fate into doubt. |
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