Science
 | Irish Times - DURBAN 2011: EUROPE HAS formally tabled an offer to renew the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change - due to expire next year - as part of a “Durban Mandate” to launch a fresh round of negotiations leading to a multilateral agreement to curb global warming. |
 | Tempo Interaktif - TEMPO Interactive, Ternate, North Maluku:A total of over 1000 people are displaced due to the Mount Gamalama eruption. They are dispersed in several evacuation camps in Ternate, such as in Tubo and Togafo Villages. |
 | msnbc.com - Skywatcher Derek Keats of Johannesburg, South Africa snapped this photo of the total lunar eclipse of June 15 with a Canon EOS 50D camera. |
 | Straits Times - BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Latin American members of the International Whaling Commission urged Japan on Wednesday to stop 'scientific' whaling in Antarctic waters and to respect sanctuaries. |
 | Register - A group of scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island in South Australia has turned up a Cambrian predator with horror-movie specs: razor serrations in a circular mouth, claws at the front of its ... |
 | Discover Magazine (blog) - Satellite radar data showed two wave fronts combining into a doubly tall tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11. Three different satellites happened to fly over the tsunami on March 11. |
 | New York Times - An illustration of a black hole the size of nearly 10 billion Suns. Inside it, where gravity is so in- tense that not even light can escape, our solar system is shown to scale. |
 | MarketWatch (press release) - WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. |
 | Globe and Mail - A team of international scientists says a newly rediscovered dinosaur species once roamed the planes of southern Alberta. Officials at California's Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology say the skeleton of the Spinops Sternbergorum was discovered ... |
 | Mashable - NASA's Voyager 1 is preparing to leave the solar system - literally going where no spacecraft has gone before. The edge of the solar system is marked by the outer reaches of the sun's magnetic field and solar wind. |
Technology
 | Computerworld - Computerworld - The government of India has asked Internet giants Google, Facebook and Yahoo to screen user content from that country and nix anything "disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory," according to reports. |
 | Inquirer.net - TAIPEI—An innovative scheme to keep the streets of northern Taiwan clean has seen thousands of citizens dutifully collecting bags of dog poop in the hope of winning $2000 in gold. |
 | Written by  in 774 Google+ circles Washington Post - The slick Xbox Live update that finally rolled out to users apparently came with a fly in the ointment - a mandatory change to its terms of service that requires members to agree not to sue or join class action lawsuits against the company. |
 | Philippine Star - It may be too soon but if this study checks out in further studies, we may not need the reproductive health bill anymore to manage fertility rates. |
 | Economic Times - TAIPEI: US chip giant Intel has joined hands with a top Taiwan research institute to develop a new generation of memory chips for use in lighter, energy-saving smartphones and tablets, officials said on Wednesday. |
 | Straits Times - NEW YORK (AP) - A Facebook security flaw revealed this week allowed users to gain access to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's private photos. |
 | Investor's Business Daily - The software giant will now offer program and app developers an 80% cut of the profit if a program has made at least $25000, or 70% if not. |
 | The Seattle Times (blog) - Microsoft quietly released the first official Xbox Live app for Apple iOS devices today, alongside the big upgrade to the Xbox dashboard. |
 | USA Today - TORONTO - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has been forced to change the name of its new operating system from BBX after the company lost a trademark ruling. |
 | USA Today - Employees gather at the entrance to a new Apple store in New York City's Grand Central Station during a media preview. The store overlooks the main concourse of the historic Grand Central Station. |
 | New York Times - Those days of dashing through the mall on Christmas Eve, searching for the perfect book or DVD, may be history. Procrastinators this year can sit at home, alone and unruffled, and send books, music and even video in time for Christmas ... |
 | Cult of Mac - Flipboard released its official iPhone app last night. Many users were frustrated initially with error messages during installation and adding services. |
 | Ninemsn - Tax Time 2011Doing your tax doesn't need to be daunting! Check out ninemsn Finance's Tax Time for tips and advice on how to make your 2011/12 tax return work for you. |
 | Business Insider - 10 percent of all status updates (in English) mentioned Osama bin Laden in the days following his death, according to a Facebook blog outlining the top ten global trends in 2011. |
 | Washington Post - The launch of the Galaxy Nexus, the newest Google Android phone, has been shrouded in mystery. One feature that will not appear on the Nexus is Google Wallet, according to Verizon. |
 | Irish Times - GOOGLE IS beginning to bridge the “app gap” between its Android smartphones and Apple's rival iPhone, as figures reveal users are downloading one billion software applications per month on each of the two platforms. |
 | BBC News - By Jorn Madslien Business reporter, BBC News Fear may not be rational, but it is always real and it always changes behaviour. US carmaker General Motors (GM) is feeling it right now, as potential customers' enthusiasm about its innovative Chevrolet ... |
 | AllFacebook - Facebook's timeline profile hasn't even been in beta for a full 24 hours - and only in New Zealand - and we've already noticed a couple of minor changes to the area between the cover image and the wall. |
 | Newsday - News Newsday > News Content Preview Newsday 7 day/Optimum Online ® subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online ® subscriber? |
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