Science
 | Sydney Morning Herald - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The discovery of two small planets has astronomers excited, writes Dennis Overbye. |
 | The Hindu - The newly-launched Russian communications satellite “Meridian” failed to reach its planned orbit and crashed in the Siberia region on Friday, according to the Russian Aerospace Forces. |
 | New York Times - A Soyuz spacecraft safely delivered a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station on Friday, restoring the permanent crew to six members for the first time since September. |
 | Technabob (blog) - Somehow, I missed most of the hubbub over this mysterious ball that is said to have fallen from the sky and landed in Namibia. It looks rather like a canon ball. |
 | The West Australian - Comet Lovejoy is set to grace WA skies over the Christmas period after surviving a close brush with the Sun last week. The comet amazed astronomers when it avoided a fiery death, passing through the one-to-two-million- degree solar corona for more than ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - An event with four identified muons from a proton-proton collision in ATLAS. Such events are produced by Standard Model processes without Higgs particles. |
 | The Asian Age - PTI Planetary scientists claim that the Hubble telescope has found hints of “building blocks of life” on Pluto. An international team, led by the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, says the Hubble has actually detected hints of complex ... |
 | BBC News - By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News A mysterious bony growth found in elephants' feet is actually a sixth "toe", scientists report. |
 | Newsday - OpEd Newsday > Opinion > OpEd Rajagopalan: Climate-change waiting game Published: December 22, 2011 2:02 PM By KAVITHA RAJAGOPALAN It's the end of another year, a time to look back and take stock, maybe even make a resolution or two for the future. |
Technology
 | Written by  in 4,527 Google+ circles The Guardian - Facebook has been told to stop its practice of indefinitely retaining data about which adverts its 500 million users outside the US click on, following a review by the Irish data protection commissioner of its non-US operations. |
 | Justmeans - As we hurl past the darkest period of the year, let's hear it for some bright news on the sustainable energy front. The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently validated greater than 41 percent efficiency at a ... |
 | GMA News - Apple Inc.'s cloud-based services are now the target of online phishers, whose latest attack tries to fool MobileMe customers into giving their online credentials. |
 | 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? |
 | Mobile Magazine - By Michael Kwan, December 23, 2011 @ 4:46pm So close. So very close. Last week, we saw a brief update on the status of an iOS 5 untethered jailbreak. |
 | The Engineer - When you open your Christmas present this year it might not be obvious that you are helping a revolution in sports science. Some of the most popular presents are likely to be mobile phones, games consoles and computer games, all of which are ... |
 | INAUTONEWS - The German based automaker Mercedes-Benz has recently released a new video where the C63 AMG Coupe Black Series hits the Laguna Seca. |
 | Inquirer.net - SAN FRANCISCO—The holiday season brings with it increased chances for online scams as Internet users hunt for gift bargains and cyber crooks expand arsenals to include false offers of tremendous deals on hot items. |
 | Chicago Tribune - Forget Christmas lights: The blinking red light announcing a new email tends to shine the brightest - no matter what time of year or day. |
 | Written by  Los Angeles Times - Research In Motion is facing a new lawsuit for its use of BBM as a name for its BlackBerry Messenger service by a Canadian radio and TV industry group known as BBM Canada. |
 | Toronto Star - by Michael Hodel | 23 Dec 11 Regulators have turned a more favorable eye toward AT&T's T other wireless deal, the purchase of spectrum from Qualcomm QCOM . |
 | Indian Express - The telecom department on Friday told Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, three of the country's largest operators, to cancel agreements to provide 3G services on each others' airwaves in areas where they did not hold the required spectrum. |
 | IBNLive.com - New Delhi: It's time for Christmas and Google has come up with an interactive doodle on the eve of Christmas, playing the celebration tune of 'jingle Bells'. |
 | The Verge - By Dieter Bohn on December 23, 2011 09:07 pm 0Comments Don't act all surprised that the latest update for the Kindle Fire, version 6.2.1, has already been rooted. |
 | androidandme.com - Sony hasn't been the most popular tablet manufacturer this year. They came into the market a bit late and their products don't really offer much more than the competition, specs-wise. |
 | Los Angeles Times - "Facebook" was the term most frequently searched for by American Internet users in 2011, according to a report from Experian Hitwise, part of the Experian Marketing Group. |
 | TIME - By Harry McCracken | @harrymccracken | December 23, 2011 | + One thing that people seem to have missed in all the hubbub over Microsoft saying that it'll stop doing keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show after 2012: Doing a CES keynote isn't exactly ... |
 | PC Magazine - By Jeffrey L. Wilson The PlayStation Vita won't hit American stores until Feb. 22 (Feb. 15 should you purchase the pre-order bundle), but Sony has already revealed the list of launch titles that will be available for purchase on day one. |
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