Science
 | Inquirer.net - President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday signed the first ever government's action plan to respond to climate change, with his officials saying that his action will make him “one of the greenest president'' in the country. |
 | Examiner.com - On Monday the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced in its annual greenhouse gas bulletin that worldwide levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continued to rise to record highs in 2010. |
 | Times LIVE - About 70million people, and up to 30% of Africa's coastal infrastructure, could be flooded by rising sea levels in 2080, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said. |
 | msnbc.com - Members of the International Space Station's newly expanded crew faced the camera last week. Top row (left to ight): Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, US astronaut Mike Fossum and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov. |
 | New Zealand Herald - A "sky crane" lowers the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars. Photo / AP As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, Nasa's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill. |
 | msnbc.com - An international effort is under way to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, but time is quickly running out on propelling the probe toward the Red Planet. |
 | NPR (blog) - When scientists brought the Bulbophyllum nocturnum back to the Netherlands, they were perplexed. They had found the plant on the island of New Britain, near Papua New Guinea. |
 | CBS News - Motorists come out from their vehicle to check as the traffic stand still at a city road in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. |
 | Discover Magazine (blog) - In a previous post, I reported on the baffling new finding that neutrinos appear to travel faster than light. The stuff of science fiction…travel to the past…weird science…Einstein rolling in his grave. |
 | International Environmental Technology - Increased use of HFCs - hydrofluorocarbons, used in fridges and air conditioning units, and which are much more potent than CO2 - have prompted air quality concerns for the future. |
 | Daily Mail - Working out how dinosaurs lived involves a certain amount of speculation, for obvious reasons - but now and again some concrete proof of their lifestyles turns up. |
Technology
 | GSMArena.com - Some images and specs have popped up of a Nokia device, bound for China with a dual-mode quad-band GSM and TD-SCDMA network - codenamed 801T. |
 | GMANews.TV - Future portable Apple Inc. devices such as the iPhone and iPod Touch may soon be crack-resistant, after the tech giant filed a patent for a crack-resistant glass solution for its devices. |
 | Daily Nexus - Once a website targeting mostly college students, Facebook's popularity has exploded in recent years, a testament to its universal appeal. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Talks are in their final stages, an executive with the South Korean company told reporters in Seoul. But the TV will not be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January when Samsung competitor LG Electronics takes the wraps off its ... |
 | News Veteran - To encourage more customers to avail of their favorite electronics this Black Friday, Walmart has announced that they will be giving free shipping on on Electronics purchases that will go over $45. |
 | Globe and Mail (blog) - The notion that one person can be connected to any other in just six steps, commonly known as six degrees of separation, has been around since social psychologist Stanley Milgram's “small world experiment” in the 1960s. |
 | ABC News (blog) - Remember “Climategate” - the hacking of thousands of emails from climate change researchers in 2009? There appears to have been another dump of hacked emails from the University of East Anglia in England, possibly from the same period. |
 | Global Grind - Are you ready for the Facebook phone? We aren't either, but that isn't going to stop its projected 2013 release date. In 12-18 months there should be a phone dedicated specifically to Facebook, as if you didn't spend enough time on the website already. |
 | The Australian - MICROSOFT has bought VideoSurf, an online video search engien that it plans to integrate into its Xbox Live platform. Videosurf was founded by four Israelis and which has received funding from former US vice president Al Gore. |
 | National Post (blog) - New advancements in nanotechnology have opened the door to possibly reading your email with the blink of an eye. Researchers in the United States and Finland have developed a contact lens with the ability to display a single pixel to the user, ... |
 | PC Magazine - A market analysis firm makes waves by predicting Apple will soon surpass global leader HP in PC market share. Is it nutty to count iPads as PCs? |
 | Afterdawn.com - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled today that Apple's iOS products do not infringe on patents held by S3 Graphics, the company recently purchased by HTC. |
 | Computerworld (blog) - Microsoft is betting the farm that its deal with Nokia will help kickstart the struggling Windows Phone 7 platform. But two analysts say that Nokia's new Windows Phone 7 devices, including the Lumia, may well be duds. |
 | CBC.ca - By Community Team Hackers can break into many accounts just by trying common passwords, warns SplashData. Sean Kilpatrick/CP Internet users who've selected short, clever security passwords like "password" and "123456" might want to think twice. |
 | PCWorld (blog) - The Kindle Fire launched just over a week ago, and despite some issues and mediocre reviews, Amazon's media tablet is selling well and may receive a hardware update as early as 2012. |
 | CNET - If you've been eagerly awaiting the launch of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, you may want to take a rain check for now. Over at the XDA Developers forums, users have reported that the Samsung handset running ... |
 | Fellow GEEK - Google may not be able to boost the number of tablets that its Android partners sell, but it can certainly shift the search experience on the popular Apple iPad. |
 | Written by  Engadget - It's only been a few weeks since ASUS went official with it's Tegra 3-packing Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet. We knew the keyboard-dockable hybrid would available sometime this December, ... |
 | BusinessWeek - Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates faced more cross-examination on allegations that the world's largest software maker undermined Novell Inc.'s WordPerfect program. |
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