Science
 | The Citizen Daily - By Deodatus Mfugale Durban. Tanzania is determined to implement climate change adaptation measures but the resolve has seen little progress due to lack of a climate change policy that would not only coordinate climate change adaptation activities ... |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - This undated handout artist rendering provided by NASA shows Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. |
 | MiamiHerald.com - DURBAN, South Africa -- China's delegate to the United Nations climate conference in South Africa kicked off the conference on Monday with a surprise announcement: China, he said, might favor carbon curbs - eventually. |
 | Joburg - Urban agriculture is one way of working to combat climate change, and at the same time keep food prices down and ensure food security. |
 | TODAYonline - A volcano eruption in eastern Indonesia forced the closure of a nearby airport yesterday and blanketed villages with thick ash. No injuries had been reported. |
 | Times LIVE - With a few days left and much at stake, it remains to be seen whether the COP17 climate negotiations in Durban will sufficiently address global warming and its consequences. |
 | Atlanta Journal Constitution - AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist - each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. |
 | Hindustan Times - Melting of snow on the world's tallest peak, the Mount Everest, has increased dramatically between 2002 and 2005 with receding of glaciers in Hindu-Kush Himalayan region having doubled in the last 20 years. |
 | IBNLive.com - PTI Durban: As pressure increases on India to accept legally binding carbon emissions cuts, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Monday stressed on "equity" as a central tenet of the climate change talks. |
 | RT - The Russian interplanetary moon mission that barely got off the planet has started falling apart. Two unidentified objects have separated from Phobos-Grunt and quickly disintegrated, claims Canadian scientist Ted Molchan. |
 | Technorati - On December 10, 2011 at around 4:45am PST (12:45 GMT) a total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of the Pacific side of North America, across the entire Pacific Ocean to Asia and Eastern Europe. |
Technology
 | TODAYonline - TOKYO - A highway pile-up in Japan on Sunday morning involving a convoy of luxury sports cars may be one of the priciest road accidents on record. |
 | Financial Post - A US court ruling on Friday denied Apple's bid to stop Samsung from selling its Galaxy smartphone and tablets in the United States. |
 | Forbes - A piece of keystroke-sniffing software called Carrier IQ has been embedded so deeply in millions of Nokia, Android, and RIM devices that it's tough to spot and nearly impossible to remove, as 25-year old Connecticut systems administrator Trevor Eckhart ... |
 | Los Angeles Times - The head of Research In Motion's Indonesia division is reportedly under investigation after a stampede of consumers broke out at a launch event for a BlackBerry smartphone last month. |
 | The Seattle Times - Despite these gaffes, the new software is overall a very nice update to the Xbox that gives the dashboard a fresh, modern feel and is easier to navigate with a standard controller or the Kinect sensor. |
 | BusinessWeek - Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. is hiring Gowalla Inc. employees, including co-founders Josh Williams and Scott Raymond, tapping the talent of a once-pioneering provider of location-based services. |
 | Reuters UK - (Reuters) - Leap Wireless International Inc (LEAP.O) on Monday swapped wireless airwaves with Verizon Wireless in a series of deals aimed at beefing up its presence in the Chicago area. |
 | Wall Street Journal - NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Verizon Wireless is expanding its slate of expensive smartphones priced at nearly $300 each with a two-year contract, betting that customers will be attracted by the carrier's reputation ... |
 | ZDNet (blog) - Summary: Firefox's market-share is fading; the browser itself isn't that good anymore; and its money supply may be drying up. |
 | Indian Express - Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today asked Internet companies to screen alleged derogatory, defamatory and inflammatory content about religious figures and Indian leaders such as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the ... |
 | Written by  in 1,530 Google+ circles All Things Digital - Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet, according to the usability experts at The Nielsen Norman Group. In a report published Monday, Group founder Jakob Nielsen says the Fire suffers from all sorts of usability problems and offers a disappointingly poor user ... |
 | Automobile Magazine - The spy photographers at Motor Trend got a look at a Mercedes-Benz B-Class prototype that appears to have been modified by AMG. The car will likely be called the B25 AMG and is almost certainly headed to production. |
 | PC Magazine - Microsoft revealed that Windows 8 would have a built-in software marketplace when it first showed the revamped interface in June, though at that point the company would not comment on the "Store" icon that was clearly visible in the ... |
 | PC Magazine - Google now has more than a half dozen versions of its Android operating system out in the mobile ecosystem, but the majority of Android-based devices are at least running one of the more recent versions of the OS—Gingerbread. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - MarketDelta LLC, a global trading software provider, announced that it has released three mobile software applications, one for the iPad and two for the iPhone, that visualize stock, ETF, and global stock prices and provide a simple way for mobile ... |
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