Science
 | Ghana Broadcasting Corporation - Nearly 20 years ago, nearly 200 governments pledged to inform their citizens about climate change and its effects. What is yours doing? |
 | Christian Post - Scientists from NASA are working with 70 m Deep Space Network antennas in California, and they have released a second, longer, and more refined, movie clip of behemoth asteroid 2005 YU55. |
 | Register - When the Russian Soyuz TMA-22 successfully launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Monday morning, its crew manifest listed NASA's Dan Burbank and Roscosmos' Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin. |
 | Times of India - NEW DELHI: Consensus eluded a meeting of key countries on climate change, including India, EU, China and the US, called by Spain along with South Africa and Mexico at Madrid recently. |
 | Huffington Post - Seriously. Yesterday I was on Capitol Hill talking about global warming with Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project and Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. |
 | The Guardian - Wish you were here ... a Martian crater as snapped by an earlier Nada rover, Opportunity, in 2007. Photograph: Ho New / Reuters/REUTERS Nasa is planning to launch its Curiosity rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, during a window that lasts from 15:25 ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - New Zealand conservation officials have euthanised the last surviving pilot whales from a pod of 65 that stranded on a remote South Island beach. |
 | New Zealand Herald - By Saleh Mwanamilongo Lava shoots from Mount Nyamulagira in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. The park is inviting tourists on an overnight trek to view the spectacular eruption. |
 | Irish Times - THE SPACE ELEVATOR: TRANSPORTING astronauts and supplies to and from the International Space Station (ISS) has never been cheap. And it's the same with the launching of satellites to low-Earth orbit - the area between 100 and 1200 miles above the Earth ... |
 | Business Green - By BusinessGreen staff The global economic crisis is no excuse for countries to delay an international fund to help countries combat the effects of climate change, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said. |
 | Reuters - LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Scientists are cooking up new ways of satisfying the world's ever-growing hunger for meat. "Cultured meat" -- burgers or sausages grown in laboratory Petri dishes rather than ... |
Technology
 | ITProPortal - The handset, which is already available in the UK on SIM Free and is one of two phones currently on the market to have a 1280x800 pixels screen resolution. |
 | Pistonheads.com - So, this week we'll be driving the all-new Porsche 911. But not until Friday. I'm pretty excited about this - who wouldn't be - and I hope you are too. |
 | USA Today - Facebook users on Tuesday were assaulted by a wave of pornographic and violent images, pushed into their accounts as content supposedly liked or recommended by their friends. |
 | Hong Kong Standard - Austrian law student Max Schrems likes being seen, but this one of 800 million Facebook users contradicts himself with a snivel about the networking website's privacy policy. |
 | AMOG - by Adalbert Earlier this year we wrote a piece about a Japanese scientist who made burgers out of poo. Now, the Japanese have created a motorcycle that runs on excrement. |
 | WTOP - One-third of adults surveyed said they have broken up with someone via text message, Facebook or email. (WTOP) WASHINGTON - Years ago, there was the class ring and the letterman jacket to signify you were in a relationship. |
 | ITProPortal - Twitter introduced some new features that allow users to check who liked their posts and also keep track of the activities of people whom they are following. |
 | CNNMoney - Barnes and Noble's Nook Tablet is a beautifully designed device that sports a slick interface. Too bad it costs so much and lacks for extras. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Apple on Tuesday announced that Arthur Levinson, chairman of Genentech Inc., will succeed Steve Jobs as chairman of the board. Levinson, who has been on Apple's board since 2000, has been co-lead director since 2005. |
 | AFP - HELSINKI - Finland is being targeted by a cyber activism campaign, police acknowledged Tuesday, after an apparent local branch of online "hacktivist" group Anonymous said it had hacked some 500000 email accounts. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - JC Penney, the third-largest US department store chain, had its first quarterly loss in two years. Research In Motion Ltd., struggling to stem sales declines amid competition from Apple Inc., unveiled two smart phones running the current BlackBerry 7 ... |
 | GM Authority (blog) - “No matter where you're going, getting there is a real treat when you drive Chevrolet - the best-looking, best-driving car on the road. |
 | CNET (blog) - After weeks of speculation, Apple finally unveiled iTunes Match. For $24.99 a year, iTunes Match grants you access to a copy of your iTunes library stored in the cloud. |
 | iT News - Samsung has postponed its application to ban Australian sales of Apple's iPhone 4S after the Federal Court set dates for a final hearing of the case in March next year. |
 | Redmondmag.com - The voters confirmed Microsoft's board members and the company's auditor (Deloitte & Touche). All nine board nominees on the proxy statement were elected. |
 | Huffington Post - The plot has thickened in the mystery of the giant structures in the Chinese desert. Earlier this week, images from Google Maps surfaced showing a bizarre tangle of white lines etched into the Kumtag Desert in northwestern China. |
 | Boston.com - LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Louisville coach Charlie Strong says his Cardinals were more focused on a video game than they were on Pittsburgh -- and it cost them. |
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