Science
 | my.hsj.org - Right now there is an asteroid in space that will be the closest between earth and the moon that it has ever been in 35 years on Tuesday! |
 | Christian Science Monitor - If controllers are unable to repair Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe, which was intended to fly to a moon of Mars but is instead stranded in Earth's orbit, it will eventually crash back to Earth. |
 | Global Adventures, LLC - Antarctica (global-adventures.us): A new scientific project tries to determine how much heat ocean currents deliver to the underside of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) as it discharges into the sea. |
 | AFP - HANOI - Climate change will bring more floods and extreme weather to Southeast Asia, a World Bank official said Thursday on a visit to the region, where hundreds have died in severe inundation. |
 | Forbes - The predawn light reveals the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft as it is prepared to be lifted into place atop the Atlas V rocket. |
 | Patch.com - The asteroid, called 2005 YU55, was going 30000 miles per hour when it went past Earth on Tuesday. Astronomers at Chabot Space & Science Center caught images of the asteroid 2005 YU55 as it streaked past the Earth at 30000 miles per hour on Tuesday, ... |
 | Reuters - BRUSSELS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - European politicians plan next week to revive debate on raising the target to cut the EU's carbon emissions as the bloc readies to take a leading role in climate change talks in Durban later this month. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - There has been a possible sighting of Canada's version of the loch ness monster at a lake in BC, reported the website 680news. |
 | Written by  in 1,156 Google+ circles Gizmodo - You might think NASA's not doing a lot these days, what with the dismantling of the manned space program and everything, but they're still making explosions. |
 | NEagle - The waning gibbous Moon lights the eastern sky later and later in the evening this week. Last quarter Moon is on November 18th, rising at about midnight. |
 | Daily News & Analysis - Scientists have come up with the world's smallest tiny four-wheeled vehicle, which is in the form of a molecule and uses electrons to move forward. |
Technology
 | USA Today - While the 2012 Hyundai Accent starts at $12445 and the Hyundai Elantra at $15195, you'd be hard-pressed to find either of those low-priced models at Hyundai dealerships. |
 | Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter A dangerous bug in Apple's mobile operating system has been discovered, potentially allowing hackers to take control of iPhone and iPad apps. |
 | PC Magazine - Adobe's decision yesterday to stop development of its Flash Player for mobile devices and instead focus on creating tools for HTML5 seemed inevitable, given the near-universal support that HTML5 has garnered from the makers of ... |
 | PC Authority - RIM currently has its best design team holed up in a basement at a secret location, working on a range of super smartphones running its new BBX operating system. |
 | AutoExpress - The flagship of this famous Italian firms range, the Lamborghini Aventador pushes supercar boundaries with its carbon-composite chassis and scintillating performance. |
 | DAWN.com - Wikipedia's home page has options for many languages. The online encyclopaedia currently has versions in more than 20 languages spoken in India including Hindi. |
 | Fortune - "I can't begin to accurately describe the scene on the walkways outside the Hong Kong Apple Store." So begins the dispatch by Penguin Six's Andrew Leyden writing 24 hours before the first scheduled ... |
 | The Province - A joyrider who drove his rare Aston Martin nearly 300 km/h on a Belgian highway was found by police after posting a video of his high-speed adventure on YouTube, officials said Tuesday. |
 | New Zealand Herald - A show in Paris is tracing the history of video gaming, from pioneering Pong through to cutting-edge titles like Call of Duty. Photo / Supplied From the 1970s table-tennis game Pong to the fast-paced, total-immersion of modern-day hits like Call of ... |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., the world's largest technology company by market value, fell in US trading amid concern about a drop in supplier orders, indicating potentially weaker sales of the iPad and iPhone. |
 | Forbes - Nvidia shares rose 4% in after-hours trading Thursday after the graphics and mobile chip specialist posted better than expected third quarter earnings. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Modern Warfare 3, Activision's latest first-person shooter, hit store shelves like a runaway train. The game, part of the Call of Duty franchise, was predicted to be the top-selling video game despite healthy competition from EA's Battlefield 3. |
 | Sci-Tech Today - Research firm iSuppli has estimated that Amazon loses about $20 on every Kindle Fire sold. Given Amazon's huge inventory of content -- e-books, movies, music, apps, and more -- the company's strategy for the Kindle Fire is to lose money ... |
 | Ars Technica - More details have emerged about how the seven alleged Estonian and Russian hackers indicted by the US Wednesday managed to hijack over 4 million computers worldwide—many of them at government ... |
 | PC Magazine - Okay, so Siri listens to you and responds--kind of. Can we move on yet? By John C. Dvorak I'm not liking this trend towards yakking at the iPhone via Siri. |
 | CNET - Game creator Bethesda Softworks has released a series of videos over the last week detailing more of the sights and sounds of the epic experience, and we've collected some of ... |
 | ABC News (blog) - Do you use Gmail? Do you use a BlackBerry? Do you check your Gmail on it? Google has offered a free app that BlackBerry users can download to read their Gmail on the go, but it has now announced that as of Nov. 22, it will stop. |
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