Science
 | Ecolog.com (subscription) - By Colin Isaacs The world's climate change negotiators, along with a number of ministers, wrapped up their annual slog towards a binding global greenhouse gas (GHG) treaty at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, ... |
 | eTaiwan News - AP The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving “Star Trek” dreams that first interested them in science. |
 | Manila Bulletin - SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan announced they're building a giant airplane and spaceship to zip people and cargo into orbit. |
 | News24 - Thirty writers, thirty views of Durban. Each piece evokes memories of the city that has shaped... Now R121.95 Brasilia - The UN's conference on climate change failed to make enough headway in efforts to curb deforestation, experts warned, saying forest ... |
 | 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. |
 | China Daily - By Karl Wilson (China Daily) Asia-Pacific region is fast becoming vulnerable to climate change, Karl Wilson reports from Sydney. It has been a year of devastation and wreckage for the region, and a year of warning about the dangers of climate change. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - By SCOTT SUNDE, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF This handout image provided by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, taken, Thursday shows the Comet Lovejoy leaving the sun's corona which is several million degrees. |
 | The Australian - It may take days before rescue teams reach the Sparta and its 32-strong crew in the Southern Ocean. Source: AFP A NEW Zealand Air Force plane will today make a mercy dash to the Antarctic to drop equipment and fuel to a stricken Russian fishing boat ... |
 | Financial Times - Big physics has burst back into the news with a bang. This week's headlines highlighted the hunt for the Higgs boson, labelled indelibly as the “God particle”. |
 | KTNA - by KTNA Staff ~ December 16th, 2011 By Doug O'Hara, Alaska Dispatch A former Russian general has now apparently blamed Alaska's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (or HAARP) radio facility outside Gakona for foiling that country's mission ... |
 | Toronto Star - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a young star undergoing violent birth. The star, named S106 IR, has a mass of about 15 times that of our sun. |
Technology
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines—Thousands of people lined up for hours on Thursday evening to be the first in the Philippines to get their hands on the new Apple iPhone 4S. |
 | Huffington Post - Happy Friday, everyone! It's an especially exciting Friday for 14-year-old Rebecca Black, as Google announced yesterday in its Zeitgeist 2011 review that Rebecca won the top spot for fastest-rising search of the year. |
 | DAWN.com - The Philippines-based IRRI said it had found that pesticides and the lack of ecological “diversity” in rice farms had reduced the predatory bugs and spiders that prey on planthoppers, a major rice pest in Asia. |
 | Manila Bulletin - By PINKY CONCHA COLMENARES MANILA, Philippines - A new SUV that carries the famous heritage of the Subaru will be the latest vehicle of desire when the new year rolls in. |
 | Washington Post (blog) - By Maura Judkis Every time Facebook changes its design, there is a collective outcry from the addicted masses bemoaning the site's new look. |
 | Hindustan Times - Google has announced a series of updates to its Google+ video conferencing feature "Hangouts" that will make video chats more accessible to everyone. |
 | NME.com - The cloud system allows users to pay a fee and have their music libraries scanned by Apple, who then replace songs with higher quality versions which can be accessed from other Apple devices such as iPods. |
 | myce.com - The folks who run the unofficial Facebook Privacy and Security blog had one crazy day. Early Thursday morning, the site's operators were unable to update their own Facebook page after it was blocked for being “spammy” by the social networking company. |
 | NYU Local - By Jeremy Unger on December 15th, 2011 [UPDATED: See correction and university comment below] This past Tuesday, the .xxx domain went live, more safely organizing online porn and causing a bit of a headache for worried universities. |
 | PhoneDog - With smartphones, there are no shortages in ways to communicate and stay connected. But even in the days of smartphones, one of the most popular ways to stay connected is by the age-old Short Message Service (SMS), or text messaging. |
| News24 - Thirty writers, thirty views of Durban. Each piece evokes memories of the city that has shaped... Now R121.95 Brasilia - The UN's conference on climate change failed to make enough headway in efforts to curb deforestation, experts warned, saying forest ... |
 | Written by  in 176,893 Google+ circles Computerworld (blog) - By JR Raphael (@jr_raphael) Hope you're hungry, Nexus S users: Google has just announced it's rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to your phones starting right now. |
 | Written by  CNET - by Roger Cheng December 16, 2011 1:16 PM PST Follow @RogerWCheng Samsung tacked on four new patents in fresh complaints brought against Apple in a German court, according to legal blog FOSS Patents. |
 | Forbes - Apple is building a version of its iPad tablet computer with a 3.5-inch screen that will sell for as little as $199. The device will provided a pocketable version of the iPad and a contract-free version of Apple's popular iPhone 4S. |
 | TIME - By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | December 16, 2011 | + Some Apple blogs are reporting that copyright infringement is no longer required to install Siri on an iPhone 4. It's a dubious claim, but even if it was true, it doesn't bring us any closer to ... |
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