Science
 | 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. |
 | Christian Post - The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle was originally part of NASA's Constellation Program, which is no longer an active NASA program. |
 | PlanetSave.com - I've been meaning to write on the crack that has formed in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier (PIG) for days now. Clearly, this is just another government scam trying to convince us that global warming is happening. |
 | RT - Russian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn into the “most toxic falling satellite ever. |
 | 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. |
 | International Business Times - NASA is preparing to launch its largest and most advanced Mars rover at the end of the month. It will spend nearly two years examining areas of the Red Planet. |
 | Discover Magazine (blog) - The eyes of many astronomers - and the eyes of their telescopes - were aimed at the asteroid 2005 YU55 a few days ago, when it passed the Earth at the relatively close distance of about 320000 km. |
 | Economic Times - NEW DELHI: India's leadership efforts to put in place a responsive climate technology transfer and development mechanism have run into a roadblock. |
 | BioScholar News - Scientists believe that our solar system might have sacrificed a giant planet to protect the Earth. Dr. David Nesvorny of the Southwest Research Institute wondered whether the early solar system could have had five giant planets instead of four. |
 | Deutsche Welle - Small galaxies are more fertile, apparently. New images from the Hubble Space Telescope have surprised astronomers by revealing a much faster rate of star births in far-distant dwarf galaxies than expected. |
Technology
 | Reuters Blogs (blog) - Activision Blizzard's “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ video game racked up more than $400 million in sales on its first day in stores in the US and the UK, beating last year's record of 5.6 million units, or $360 million in sales of “Call of Duty: ... |
 | ZDNet (blog) - Summary: Apple is finally selling unlocked versions of the iPhone 4S - with a few caveats. Consumers looking to pick up the iPhone 4S without a two-year contract finally have the news they've been ... |
 | Mobiletor.com - The Google Mobile blog has declared the latest update to Google Translate for iPhone. The Google app has added a total of five new Indian languages to its kitty namely, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. |
 | Search Engine Watch - The Google +1 button is continuing its march across Google properties. The latest recipient is Google Image Search, which now allows users to +1 directly from an image result and which promotes +1'd results ... |
 | CBS 21 - This is a statistic that really sounds hard to believe, but up to 1 million each day are falling for a computer scam and there may be even more scams on the way this holiday season. |
 | MarketWatch - The maker of the BlackBerry has seen its share price tumble this year. And Research in Motion came under fire after a massive service outage on five continents. |
 | 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. |
 | The Associated Press - CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple has released a software update to fix a problem that is shortening the battery life of some iPhones, iPads and iPods. |
 | Register - The CEO of Logitech has slammed Google's TV service and has said his company will not develop hardware for the platform in the future. |
 | Written by  in 10,403 Google+ circles Wired News - Facebook is reportedly ready to settle a privacy complaint with the FTC, agreeing to get consent from users before making private data public and to performing privacy audits for the next 20 years. |
 | Written by  in 660 Google+ circles Washington Post - Steam, the online gaming network run by game company Valve, confirmed Thursday that its forums had been hacked and warned users to keep a close eye on their credit card statements. |
 | Forbes - It's a little absurd to interview someone about an interview. But back in 1995, Robert Cringely landed a hell of an interview with someone who was - in retrospect - one hell of a subject. |
 | TIME - Confession time: I haven't played enough of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to justify writing a poetic review of its virtues and flaws. |
 | PC Magazine - In the battle between the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, the Fire has a slight edge over the Nook, with about 39.5 percent of PCMag readers saying they have bought or will buy Amazon's $199 tablet. |
 | Reuters Blogs (blog) - On the same day that James Murdoch was fighting for his career at a parliamentary hearing on Thursday in London, Sony's CEO Sir Howard Stringer was making fun of the whole situation an ocean away. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - It's strange to think Google wasn't involved at launch, as Facebook, Amazon, and Zynga were. But a year ago when the fund was announced, Google was nowhere in social networking - Wave was a disaster and Buzz was dying on the vine. |
 | CNET - Motorola has resurrected the Razr as a Droid-branded smartphone, and it's popping up all over--on sale today only at Amazon, given away for free to some old-school Razr owners, and it's even ... |
 | TIME - There are many things I like about the Apple Store's unorthodox approach to retailing. One I don't: The fact that most of its locations have done away with the traditional check-out with a ... |
 | Written by  in 933 Google+ circles Telegraph.co.uk - Jon Briggs only discovered he was the voice of Apple's Siri in the UK when he saw it on television. He speaks openly for the first time. |
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