Friday, December 23, 2011

23 DEC 2011, FRI: Sci & Tech

Science


PAGASA upgrading weather monitoring equipment

Manila Bulletin - 
By FRANCIS T. WAKEFIELD MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) is set to upgrade its monitoring systems in 2012 to further improve its weather forecasting and hazard mitigating ...

Solons back 'Balik Scientist' Program

Manila Bulletin - 
By CHARISSA M. LUCI MANILA, Philippines - Lawmakers urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to work towards the passage of a bill seeking to institutionalize the “Balik Scientist” Program which aims to address the exodus of country's ...

Woman recalls grim survival experience

Manila Bulletin - 
MANILA, Philippines - Ivon Antonihao has been having trouble sleeping since her family survived rampaging floods that wiped out their village in Iligan City.

Nobel Prize: Unsettling

Richmond Times Dispatch - 
"Everybody who knew anything about crystallography or materials knew it was impossible, and they had known that for 100 years.

NASA Conducts Orion Parachute Testing For Orbital Test Flight

IEWY News - 
HOUSTON - NASA successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert Tuesday in preparation for its orbital flight test in 2014.

LHC discovers new particle, not the Higgs Boson

allvoices - 
By arkar While the world waits upon CERN and the LHC to discover the god particle, the elusive Higgs Boson, it seems that the LHC has discovered another particle - its first confirmed result since becoming functional in 2009.

A Commanding View of a Comet

National Geographic - 
A time-lapse movie taken from the International Space Station shows a brightening view of Earth's horizon at dawn on December 21.

New research shows pigeons can count

ABC Online - 
By Anne Salleh for Science Online Like humans and monkeys, the common pigeon is able to put numbers in order, according to new research.

Shroud of Turin can't be a fake, researchers say: Scientists unable to ...

New York Daily News - 
BY Rheana Murray The Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus. The Shroud of Turin is very likely not the product of Medieval fakery, say Italian researchers who used modern technology to test the holy cloth's ...

The Winter Solstice: Here's how it works

CBS News - 
Druids, pagans and revellers take part in a winter solstice ceremony at Stonehenge on December 22, 2011 in Wiltshire, England. (ge) (Space.

The Winter Solstice: Marking 2011's Shortest Day

Patch.com - 
The solstice occurred in the early hours of this morning, making today the first day of winter. By Graelyn Brashear The winter solstice occurred this morning, marking the start of winter and the shortest day of the year.

The alien gods must be crazy! Space ball falls out of the sky, drops on Namibia

NEWS.com.au - 
The metal sphere that dropped out the sky. It's not explosive and it's not the first. Picture: AFP Source: AFP A LARGE metallic ball has fallen out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the ...

No binding pacts inked in Durban climate meet: Jayanthi Natarajan

Times of India - 
“It (the Durban pact) does not imply that India has to take binding commitments to reduce its emissions in absolute terms in 2020,” Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said in a statement tabled in Rajya Sabha.


Technology


Mobile-tagging heritage sites in Cebu

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
CEBU CITY -- With just a mobile phone or tablet as digital guide, foreign tourists and locals alike may by themselves explore and take a heritage walk in Cebu City's old Chinese district of Parian.

Globe won't stop promo offers during the holidays

Business Mirror - 
GLOBE Telecom Inc.'s more than 29 million subscribers are assured of uninterrupted service, including ongoing promos for unli text and call services, during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Revenues at Facebook Ireland surged to €229m last year

Irish Times - 
REVENUES SWELLED at Facebook's Irish operating subsidiary last year, from €15.2 million to €229.1 million, as the company took on responsibility for billing customers for advertising running on the website.

Research in Motion denies lying about BB 10

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Washington Post - 
Research in Motion has denied an accusation leveled at the company in Boy Genius Report, which said that the company was lying about the reason behind the delay of BlackBerry 10.

Jesus Christ! Social media nativity video goes viral (again)

GMA News - 
What would you do if you received a text message from the Archangel Gabriel telling you that you'll be giving birth to the Son of God?

IBM predicts five big technologies of the future

InfoWorld - 
By Michael Cooney | Network World IBM has issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years.

Computing landscape: Intel all set to bring more cheer

CIOL - 
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Chipset major, Intel said that its continued innovation has led to the transform into a computing solution company.

Razer Blade Gaming Laptop Delayed to Mid-Late January

PC Magazine - 
By Natalie Shoemaker It looks like Razer's Blade gaming laptop won't be shipping in time for the holidays, as initially anticipated.

Yahoo, Facebook Strengthen Ties Despite Yahoo's Uncertain Future

eWeek - 
Yahoo is bringing its popular news activity feature, an integration with Facebook, to 26 more of its properties. The company also added recipes, local deals from Groupon and Twitter to its Livestand application.

E for Exuberance and Efficiency

Inquirer.net - 
THE E 63 is one of the cars to use the new AMG 5.5-litre V8 biturbo engine. For high-performance cars, the words power and efficiency do not usually come in one sentence.

CHICAS TECATE CELEBRATE CARÁCTER AND THE NEW YEAR WITH THE LAUNCH OF 2012 CALENDAR

PhilBoxing.com - 
NEW YORK (December 22, 2011) - Tecate, cerveza con carácter, announces the launch of a digital 2012 calendar featuring the official Chicas Tecate as they recreate scenes from a boxing training camp at the renowned Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, ...

'Bayug is no longer an island'

Inquirer.net - 
By DJ Yap SILENT WISH Children pray at an evacuation center in Cagayan de Oro City during a healing session aimed at helping them come to grips with the devastation caused by Tropical Storm “Sendong.

Sony announces titles for PS Vita launch

Washington Post - 
What will you play on your PlayStation Vita when it arrives stateside on February 22nd, 2012? You can pick from a list of twenty-five US launch titles that Sony just pushed out.

Department of Telecommunications to declare 3G roaming pacts illegal

Economic Times - 
MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications is set to declare third generation, or 3G, roaming agreements between telecom operators illegal on the ground that they breach licence conditions, dealing a setback to operators such Airtel, ...

CES 2012 Will Be Microsoft's Last Keynote Speech

Cinema Blend - 
Microsoft is moving on to bigger and better things and the Consumer Electronics Show is not one of them. After 20 years of delivering the keynote speech and having a public booth at the annual event, MS is hanging up the gloves for a very simple reason ...

LHC discovers new particle, not the Higgs Boson

allvoices - 
By arkar While the world waits upon CERN and the LHC to discover the god particle, the elusive Higgs Boson, it seems that the LHC has discovered another particle - its first confirmed result since becoming functional in 2009.

Clash of the Tech Titans

BusinessWeek - 
By Ashlee Vance The four giants of consumer technology, Amazon.com , Apple , Facebook, and Google , have hundreds of millions of users.

Report: Google to Pay Mozilla $300M Annually in Search Deal

PCWorld - 
By Jeff Bertolucci, PCWorld Dec 22, 2011 3:26 PM What's Firefox worth to Google? A cool $300 million a year, according to a Thursday report by AllThingsD.

Apple could lose Samsung case in Germany

The Australian - 
A South Korean model holds a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 during its launch in Seoul. Source: AFP A GERMAN regional court said it is leaning toward permitting Samsung Electronics to distribute the Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in the European Union as ...

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