Science
 | Ottawa Citizen (blog) - We editorialized this week that sending Environment Minister Peter Kent to Durban was a waste of money and emissions, given that (a) we have no interest in Kyoto and (b) a post-Kyoto agreement is not going to happen any time soon. |
 | BBC News - Despite non-record temperatures this year, the Earth's surface is continuing to get warmer, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). |
 | PC Magazine - The European Space Agency (ESA) has given up on trying to contact a malfunctioning Russian space probe that was supposed to visit Mars on a mission that looks increasingly unlikely to happen, ESA officials said Friday. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - I am never, ever going to New Zealand. I don't care that it's pretty. I don't care that they filmed “Lord of the Rings” there. |
 | Montreal Gazette - The Arctic zone has moved into a warmer, greener "new normal" phase, which means less habitat for polar bears and more access for development, an international scientific team reported on Thursday. |
 | Boing Boing - A pair of diamond crystals, large enough to be seen by the naked eye, have been linked together by quantum entanglement. The diamonds are entangled such that manipulating one affects the other, ... |
 | Louisville Courier-Journal (blog) - A new poll show people warming up slightly this year over last, on global warming. The national survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, and posted on its website yesterday. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - The latest Mars rover, Curiosity, could be the beginning of a human presence on the red planet. The latest Mars rover Curiosity could be the beginning of a human presence on the red planet. |
Technology
 | Written by  CNET - This year's Tokyo Motor Show stood as an example of a resurgent automotive industry, with new concepts and technologies on display. |
 | MarketWatch - MANILA -(MarketWatch)- Philippine telecommunications firms Smart Communications Inc. and Globe Telecom Inc. started taking orders Friday for the iPhone4S, and said they would make the latest Apple Inc. |
 | TheUrbanTwist.com - If you walk down any street, it is practically a guarantee that you'll see at least 3 people or more talking, texting, or surfing the Internet on their cell phones. |
 | CBS News - The only problem, which is always a risk when a public lynching takes place, is that Carrier IQ appears to be not guilty of the charges lodged against it. |
 | Reuters Blogs (blog) - Verizon Wireless plans to pay $3.6 billion for wireless airwaves from a venture of cable companies Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. |
 | Reuters Canada - NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackBerry smartphone maker Research In Motion is a national "jewel" worthy of support, Canada's industry minister said on Friday, insisting that Canada is was open to foreign investment even though it blocked a $39 ... |
 | Huffington Post (blog) - When I was growing up in rural Montana, the idea of a computer that could answer your questions in real, spoken English was something out of science-fiction stories. |
 | Chicago Tribune - Honda is expanding earlier recalls to replace the driver-side airbag inflator to include an additional 273000 Honda and Acura vehicles, the automaker announced. |
 | Written by  in 669 Google+ circles PCWorld (blog) - Sorry, Google, but I was expecting more from the big YouTube redesign that launched this week. Admittedly, I don't visit the YouTube homepage often. |
 | Fox Business - The release of Spy Files by Wikileaks is just the first stage of tackling the global problem of civilian surveillance, Privacy International founder Simon Davies told International Business Times. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc.'s share of the tablet computer market will surge to 14 percent this quarter as consumer demand catapults the Kindle Fire to the No. |
 | TechRadar UK - A Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone has allegedly combusted in a user's pocket, just days after an iPhone 4 handset had to be 'extinguished' on an aeroplane. |
 | MarketWatch - BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) - Everyone is speculating about the news that Google is mapping out a plan to match the hugely successful Amazon Prime initiative. |
 | ZDNet (blog) - Summary: The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is investigating whether lithium-ion batteries are the culprit behind several crash test fires. |
 | News24 - London - Can you crack the code? That's the question Britain's electronic listening agency, GCHQ, is asking in an online campaign to find the next generation of cyber specialists. |
 | VentureBeat - Don't start sniggering into your sleeves over your puerile “number two” jokes, but Chrome is now the second most popular browser in the world. |
 | Reuters - By Reuters at Reuters by Chang-Ran Kim and Christiaan Hetzner Toyota Motor Corp and BMW AG agreed on Thursday to join hands on a broad range of environmental technologies, forging a partnership between two engineering stalwarts in the increasingly ... |
 | gulfnews.com - AP New York : AT&T Inc blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for compiling what it called an unfair and biased report on what would happen if AT&T were allowed to buy T-Mobile USA. |
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