Science
 | Xinhua - by Wang Fan BEIJING, Dec. 1 (xinhua) -- As negotiators are gathering in Durban, South Africa, to push for new progress on global efforts to deal with climate change, divergent views emerge over the fate of Kyoto Protocol. |
 | Port Macquarie News - CLIMATE change will lead to more injuries, disease and deaths in decades to come, a report says. A Climate Commission report released this week examines the expected impacts of climate change on the health of Australians. |
 | Scientific American - When the world talks climate change—as is currently under way in Durban, South Africa—the main issue is carbon dioxide emissions. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Karen Boncocan MANILA, Philippines—Climate change will become worse in the future and it is crucial for businesses and local governments to make climate-smart decisions to prevent disasters, said a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature ... |
 | RealClimate - As the Arctic warms, greenhouse gases will be released from thawing permafrost faster and at significantly higher levels than previous estimates, according to survey results from 41 international scientists published in the Nov. |
 | Vancouver Sun - Researchers entangled objects far bigger than molecules - pieces of diamond about half a millimetre thick. It's a step toward extremely fast quantum computing. |
 | io9 - NASA recently observed a cosmic explosion, and nobody knows what it was. Actually, that's not exactly true: there are actually two equally good, utterly different explanations. |
 | The Daily Star - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Saturday, launching a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered NASA rover toward Mars to look for clues on what could sustain life on the Red Planet. |
 | Scientist - It was the longest successful space flight yet for the worms: six months in low Earth orbit (160–2000 kilometers, or 100–1240 miles above the Earth's surface) being fed and cared for entirely by a remotely-operated, ... |
 | ABC News (blog) - The penciled-in calculations that saved astronaut James Lovell and two crewmates after an oxygen tank exploded during the famous Apollo 13 mission fetched $388375 at an auction in Dallas. |
Technology
 | Technorati - With the latest success of the ASUS Transformer Prime pre-orders in North America, it's no wonder other Android tablet manufacturers are going to start committing to more tablet releases in 2012, specifically using the NVIDIA Tegra 3 (Kal-El) quad-core ... |
 | Bangkok Post - It's the EV-STER, a small sports car concept from Honda that will be on display at the Tokyo motor show starting this weekend. |
 | 동아일보 - Samsung Electronics has won its first legal battle against Apple in a patent lawsuit in Australia. The Korean company had lost to Apple in Germany and the Netherlands due to court injunctions on the sales of Samsung products. |
 | The Australian - WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has launched the website's new project, the publication of hundreds of files detailing a global industry that gives governments tools to spy on their citizens. |
 | eTaiwan News - By Benson Wei According to media reports, the United Nations has been found to be well-known hacker group Teampoison invasion, the group enters the system has stolen more than 1000 e-mail address, user name and password. |
 | New York Times - Today we are introducing enhancements to our comment system to improve the community experience across NYTimes.com. The first thing you'll probably notice is an entirely new design, which for the first time brings our readers' comments onto the same ... |
 | Inquirer.net - Citing studies that say the language used at home is the most effective in teaching, the Department of Education (DepEd) has released guidelines for developing learning materials for schools that prescribe one's mother tongue as their medium of ... |
 | PCWorld - By PCWorld Video, PCWorld Dec 1, 2011 3:20 PM A secret piece of software from Carrier IQ might be tracking your every move if you own an Android, Blackberry, or Nokia smartphone, as security researcher Trevor Eckhart discovered recently. |
 | Stuff.co.nz - YouTube has reprogrammed its website to make it easier for viewers to find and watch their favourite channels. The facelift, unveiled on Thursday, is the latest step in YouTube's attempt to make the Internet's most popular video site as easy to ... |
 | Reuters India - Across parts of the world, the first snows are signs of the coming winter. Slideshow Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London October 14, ... |
 | USA Today (blog) - With its deal buy T-Mobile for $39 billion in jeopardy, AT&T shot back in response Thursday to a detailed Federal Communications Commission report that recommended the merger be denied. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - It lacks the romance of a furtive meeting in a university college quad. But UK secret service chiefs hope this will be a far more effective method of recruiting the spies of the future. |
 | Malaysia Star - TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp and BMW AG agreed to join hands on a broad range of environmental technologies, forging a partnership between two engineering stalwarts in the increasingly competitive auto industry. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Violated users' privacy ... Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivering an address earlier this year. Photo: AFP On Facebook, people talk about births and deaths. |
 | NPR (blog) - by Eyder Peralta According to one measure, the top of the browser kingdom was upended last month: According to data released today by StatCounter, which measures browser usage, Google's Chrome has taken over the the No. |
 | Economic Times - TORONTO: Three hackers say they have exploited a vulnerability in Research In Motion's Play-Book tablet to gain root access to the device, a claim that could damage the BlackBerry maker's hard-won reputation for security. |
 | Washington Post - What does a laptop in the post-PC era look like? Is it an ultrabook with familiar internals and software in a dramatically slimmed-down shell? |
 | Washington Post - We know, we know - these days, it's hard to get your parents to buy you anything. Stuff is expensive. The economy isn't great. |
 | Fast Company - Remember the last time you visited a new office building, airport, or university campus and were lost the moment you stepped away from the main doors? |
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