Science
Wired News - By ScienceNow By Sarah CP Williams, ScienceNOW At sunset on 13 March 1973, a reticulated python (Python reticulatus) slithered into a thatched hut in the Philippines and killed two siblings: a 4-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. |
DigitalJournal.com - By JohnThomas Didymus. Micro-soft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, has unveiled plans for a brand new commercial spaceship. The spaceship will not have to blast off a launch pad but will be carried high into the air by a plane before ... |
BBC News - The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. |
CBS News - Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of explorer Roald Amundsen becoming the first to reach the South Pole. In this image Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting (l? |
Voice of America - Wednesday, 14 December 2011 208 New Species Discovered in Southeast Asia VOA News | Washington, DC An international conservation group says 208 previously unknown species of flora and fauna were discovered last year within the biologically-diverse ... |
Los Angeles Times - If you forgot to check the skies Tuesday night for the Geminid meteor shower, do not panic. Meteor experts say the show will continue Wednesday night as well. |
The Guardian - Population growth, the increasing consumption of a global elite, and an international legal system skewed in favour of largescale investors are fuelling a worldwide rush for land that is unfolding faster than previously thought and is likely to ... |
AFP - SYDNEY - Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said that "large regions" could sustain life. |
The Age - Science editor Deborah Smith talks about the evidence that the Higgs Boson particle may exist. FOR now it is just a tantalising maybe. |
NEWS.com.au - THE discovery of a supernova only hours after its explosion has probably solved a long-standing mystery on the origin of the brightest known phenomena in the Universe. |
Updated News - The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed. |
National Geographic - A simulation shows how a gas cloud approaching our galaxy's supermassive black hole may break apart. For the first time, a cloud of cool gas has been spotted approaching the supermassive black hole that lies at the center of our Milky Way galaxy—and ... |
The Canberra Times - The Australian Government has joined with those of New Zealand, the United States and the Netherlands in condemning dangerous antics at sea during the upcoming whaling season in the Southern Ocean. |
ITProPortal - Researchers at MIT have developed an imaging system capable of acquiring visual data at the super fast speed of one trillion exposures every second. |
The Hindu - The Radiation Assessment Detector, the first instrument on NASA's next rover mission to Mars to begin science operations, was powered up and began collecting data December 6, almost two weeks ahead of schedule. |
Telegraph.co.uk - Holding a buttercup under a person's chin to see if it would glow was, according to the old wives' tale, they way to tell if someone liked butter. |
MSN India - Moscow, Dec 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The lives of around 100 white whales are in danger after they were trapped in ice near Russia's northeast peninsula, officials said Wednesday. |
Technology
Bloomberg - A Metropolitan Police Officer flags down a driver who was talking on his cell phone in Washington. A Metropolitan Police Officer flags down a driver who was talking on his cell ... |
PopHerald.com - T-Mobile releases its second Galaxy S2 today, the white Samsung Galaxy S2 with the same specs, but with white coating. To rival the white iPhone 4S, T-Mobile together with Samsung Mobile USA releases the first white Samsung Galaxy S2 with T-Mobile ... |
Forbes - During the UBS Media and Communications conference, AT&T's CFO remarked that the company has almost broken its prior record for quarterly smartphone sales having sold 6 million smartphones in the first two months of December 2011 quarter. |
Sky News Australia - The contract that established Apple Computer Company sold for a staggering $1.5 million (USD) in New York on Tuesday (December 13). |
Malaya - THE country's leading telecom giants, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications, are in a tight battle again, this time over this year's hottest gadget, the iPhone 4S. |
TIME - By AP | December 12, 2011 | + ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as http://www.KUgirls. |
Hong Kong Standard - A robotic cook, a coloring book that comes to virtual life and movies that read your mind are giving our techies this week a peek at how we can live and play. |
eMoneyDaily - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has launched its iTunes store in Brazil and 15 other Latin American countries. According to an announcement made by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), it has introduced its iTunes store in Brazil and 15 other Latin American countries, ... |
msnbc.com - Facebook, iPhone, Twitter and Wii. Technology evolves at the speed of light. Msnbc.com's tech reporters look at the gadgets, games and innovations changing our world. |
ZerCustoms - New rumors surfaced the web today, claiming that Toyota is currently working on a successor for the Supra. If this turns out to be true, expect to see a new Toyota Supra on the streets in about three to four years' time. |
Techzone360 - How much would you pay for the new biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson? A British website reports that a Russian translation in a digital app form is now selling for £4.99. |
eTaiwan News - The government formally opened a new solar power system on Taiwan's Taiping Island in the South China Sea yesterday to cement its sovereignty over the disputed territory and help turn the Spratly archipelago into a “low-carbon island. |
Los Angeles Times - T-Mobile is bringing the Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone to the US in January, the companies announced Wednesday. The entry-level phone is the first Windows Phone from Nokia in the US and is targeted at the 150 million Americans who have yet to make the ... |
NEWS.com.au - From: AP Google's funding will support efforts to educate consumers on how forced labour contributes to their own clothing or smartphones. |
San Francisco Chronicle - Former Windows Phone head Andy Lees was "benched," sources are telling The Verge, because he overpromised and underdelivered on Windows Phone sales and messed up a couple of key relationships with hardware makers. |
AFP - SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook is providing a new way for US or Canadian members of the leading online social network to summon help for friends who may be thinking of ending their lives. |
Herald Sun - Members of the public are still not allowed to text or tweet during court proceedings. Source: The Advertiser REPORTERS can now use Twitter, text messages and email in courtrooms in England and Wales without permission. |
Christian Science Monitor - For a year now, iPads and iPhones have been outnumbered by tablets and phones running Android. But developers still flock to Apple's platform. |
No comments:
Post a Comment