Science
 | Financial Times - The midst of the worst economic crisis for 60 years is hardly a propitious moment to negotiate a global deal to combat climate change. |
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines - Parts of the country will experience rains and thunderstorms due to an active low pressure area, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Monday. |
 | CBS News - In this undated image provided by Fauna & Flora International, a monkey with "Elvis" hairdo is seen. It was discovered in Myanmar in 2010. |
 | North County Times - A famous constellation in the winter sky is called Orion, the Hunter. It has some real tourist sights for the backyard astronomer. |
 | Huffington Post - A tarsier has eyeballs the size of its brain, a head that can rotate 180 degrees, ears like a bat and is one of the world's smallest primates at just four inches tall, reports AFP. |
 | The Guardian (blog) - On Tuesday afternoon, a seminar will be delivered at the Cern particle physics laboratory outside Geneva. An update on the search for the so‑called "God particle", the Higgs boson, this is perhaps the most eagerly awaited scientific presentation of the ... |
 | NTDTV - On Saturday evening, the moon disappeared briefly for China and Japan. Many spectators went out to witness the lunar eclipse, said to be the best in a decade. |
 | National Geographic - A Geminid meteor cuts across star trails over Arizona's Meteor Crater in a long-exposure picture. A holiday light show is on offer for sky-watchers this week, as the annual Geminid meteor shower peaks during the overnight hours of December 13 and 14. |
 | Reuters Canada - LONDON (Reuters) - Carbon markets are still on life support after a UN climate deal agreed in South Africa on Sunday put off some big decisions until next year and failed to deliver any hope for a needed boost in carbon ... |
 | The Canberra Times - The scientists, based at the Australian National University, say extensive areas of the subsurface of Mars may contain water at a comfortable temperatures for microbes. |
 | Written by  in 5,579 Google+ circles Wired News (blog) - Engineers have made a tiny engine a few micrometers wide, or roughly the size of a water droplet found in fog. The device is both confined and powered by a “trap” of laser light, and it sputters a bit. |
 | Daily Mail - What with being so isolated these days, you would have thought we could all do with a little warmth to cheer us up. Fortunately, we have the Liberal Democrats to save us from making terrible mistakes and from being left out in a ... |
 | Newstar Media - In a statement, NASA announced that February 7th is the target launch date for the Dragaon Spacecraft developed by Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX). |
Technology
 | Written by  in 11,628 Google+ circles The Next Web (blog) - It's been a pretty bad year for RIM. Sales are down, and it is steadily losing the smartphone and tablet war against its more popular Android and iOS counterparts. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - The Assassin's Creed (AC) series has been around four years. Boasting gameplay filled with intense free-running and explosive combat, the series looks forward into new heights in the coming 2012. |
 | LAPTOP Magazine (blog) - Toshiba's new Thrive 7-inch tablet is the first Android slate its size to feature a 1280 x 800 resolution screen, giving it an incredible pixel density of 215.63 pixels per inch (PPI) as compared to the typical 1024 x 600 screen we've seen on ... |
 | 3D TV Watcher - It seems that there is a new factor hotels should consider if they want to get that five star rating. Manila Hotel in the Philippines decided to include a 3D TV in its Presidential Suite, mainly Samsung's 40-inch 3D TV along with a few pairs of 3D ... |
 | ZDNet (blog) - Summary: Security analysts and experts suggest only a small number of groups in China are responsible for high-profile cyberattacks on US targets. |
 | just-auto.com (subscription) - Nissan and Microsoft are working together to develop a new dealer management system, the companies told reporters in Tokyo. The target is to be able to offer customers better services by developing a system which enables its sales companies to share ... |
 | AFP - WARSAW - Latvian airline airBaltic announced Monday it was branching out into another business, claiming to be the world's first carrier to sell cars during its flights. |
 | Visayan Daily Star - A woman jumped off a moving sea vessel in an attempt to save her daughter who fell into the ocean at the boundary of Bacolod and Talisay cities Friday, but unluckily, neither of them survived. |
 | AFP - TOKYO - Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit on Monday amid concerns over North Korea's missile programme and to monitor natural disasters in the region, officials said. |
 | Bangkok Post - The Chinese government took another life last week, and it went unremarked almost everywhere. Prison authorities near Guilin administered a lethal drug injection to execute a Filipino man, who was caught at the airport more than three years ago ... |
 | ABC Online - Sales of the latest instalment of Call Of Duty have topped $US1 billion barely more than two weeks after its release. Activision Blizzard, producers of the wildly popular military first-person shooter video game, say Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hit ... |
 | Economic Times - The Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer. |
 | Economic Times - Somewhere at a computer last Wednesday, a developer pushed a button and the one millionth mobile app went to market. Apps shrink the programs that were once available only on a desktop computer to make them usable on smartphones and mobile devices ... |
 | Stuff.co.nz - UPROAR: Controversy has erupted over the resemblance between Dutch architectural firm MVRDV's 'Cloud' skyscraper design and the clouds of debris that billowed from World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. |
 | InformationWeek - Consumers appear to be thrilled with the ease of buying computer software through a store integrated into the operating system. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Mac users have downloaded over 100 million apps from Apple's Mac App Store, an event that ... |
 | InformationWeek - Clinicians are excited about what iPads can do for practices. But if you're shopping for a medical tablet, dispassionate analysis is in order. |
 | Washington Post - Google celebrated what would have been the 84th birthday of the late Robert “Bob” Noyce today with one of its much-loved doodles. |
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