Science
 | Climate Spectator - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - At the Durban climate conference that ended on Sunday, the European Union's strategy worked. The first commitment period under the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012. |
 | BBC News - By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website, Geneva 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. |
 | EE Times (blog) - Forget about rockets, if Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has his way, the satellites of tomorrow may well enter orbit courtesy of a mid-air launch from a dual-fuselage airplane that dwarfs any that's come before. |
 | Livemint - A hundred years ago on 14 December, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole and conquered the last significant land mass on the earth. |
 | International Business Times - By Melanie Jones: Subscribe to Melanie's RSS feed The last chance to see the gorgeous Geminid meteor shower may be tonight, and viewers who're prepared can catch up to 40 sightings an hour of the astronomical wonder if they're in the right spot and are ... |
 | 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 ... |
 | HydroWorld - The Laotian government has agreed to suspend construction of the US$3.5 billion Xayaburi hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River, pending further evaluation of the facility's environmental impact. |
 | Reuters India - 1 of 3. Rolf Heuer (C), CERN Director General, gestures next to Fabiola Gianotti (L), ATLAS experiment spokesperson, and Guido Tonelli, CMS experiment spokesperson, during a news conference at the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - a troubled Russian fishing ship that is taking on water near Antarctica and has sent out a distress call. The 55-meter ship, the Sparta, sent the call early Friday about 3700 kilometers southeast of New Zealand. |
 | CBC.ca - Image of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) taken before the supernova explosion (indicated with arrow) by the Hubble Space Telescope (left)and at the supernova's maximum brightness, using images from Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network 0.8m Byrne ... |
 | National Geographic - An explosive-powered harpoon designed to skewer a comet would be the easiest way to grab a chunk of the icy body for study back on Earth, according to NASA researchers who are currently testing the device. |
 | Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) - AFP reports that “Astronomers have spied a giant gas cloud with several times the mass of Earth accelerating toward the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. |
 | Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet - The Beluga whale's habitats are threatened by the oil industry, climate change and hunting, according to environmental advocates. |
 | LiveScience.com - Summer and fall are lean times for polar bears in the Arctic. In the colder months, they prey on seals, which sprawl on the sea ice that fringes the bears' terrain. |
Technology
 | Philippine Star - Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), the largest wireless services provider in the Philippines, will launch its iPhone 4S offerings today. |
 | The Province (blog) - The day has finally arrived where everyone can have a Facebook Timeline. Up until now only developers and users willing to jump through some settings hoops were able to activate the Timeline format. |
 | Forbes - Looking for new and interesting gifts for the food nerds in our life? We've got you covered with our top product, app, book, and tasting box picks. |
 | Reuters - (Reuters) - Facebook launched a new suicide prevention tool on Tuesday, giving users a direct link to an online chat with counselors who can help, the company said. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ A driver in the next lane is moving his lips. Is he on a hands-free cell phone or just talking to himself? |
 | Inquirer - By Kate O'Flaherty FRUIT THEMED GADGET SELLER Apple has started to roll out its Itunes Match service in more countries including the UK, France and New Zealand. |
 | TODAYonline - With new models on the horizon, can the Japanese brand expect a revival next year? by Jonathan Tan MotorImage's launch of the all new Subaru XV yesterday was an early start to what could be a busy 2012 for the Japanese carmaker in Singapore. |
 | NYU Local - By Jeremy Unger on December 15th, 2011 (4 minutes ago) This past Tuesday, the .xxx domain went live, more safely organizing online porn and causing a bit of a headache for worried universities. |
 | KQED (blog) - The mania of postmortem remembrance of Steve Jobs may have reached its apotheosis on Tuesday when the founding documents of Apple signed by Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and a third partner were bought at auction for $1.59 million. |
 | New Zealand Herald - The robot car 'Cooky' - designed to help the user cook various customised recipes - on show at the Siggraph Expo in Hong Kong where Kiwi Mark Billinghurst has impressed with augmented reality applications. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - COMPUTER maker Hewlett-Packard will not sell the remnants of its Palm acquisition and will instead make the webOS mobile operating system available to developers as an open-source platform. |
 | AFP - PARIS - The Louvre said Thursday it has teamed up with Nintendo to hand out 3D game consoles to guide visitors through its vast art collections, as part of a stepped up digital drive at the Paris museum. |
 | Written by  in 171,093 Google+ circles Computerworld (blog) - By JR Raphael (@jr_raphael) Well, well -- I've just made an interesting little discovery on the new Verizon Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus, as you probably know, is the first phone to run Google's Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, release. |
 | Reuters - By Kurt Orzeck at TheWrap The search is over for the most-Googled names in 2011: The most popular and fastest-rising terms include Rebecca Black, Ryan Dunn and Casey Anthony. |
 | AFP - SEOUL - South Korea on Thursday unveiled a locally made interceptor missile designed to counter North Korean ballistic missiles and fighter jets. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest online retailer, said customers have bought about 1 million of its Kindle e-book readers and tablets in each of the past three weeks, the most detailed sales numbers the company has released. |
 | Wired News - By Eric Smalley The activist environmental organization declared victory in its nearly two-year campaign to pressure Facebook to reduce the environmental impact of its data centers. |
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