Science
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - BEIJING -- Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government's latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds itself. |
 | Montreal Gazette - Clocks around the world are ticking portentously toward a scientific showdown on Thursday in Geneva, where delegates at a gathering of the International Telecommunication Union - the UN agency that regulates global measurement of time - will decide ... |
 | National Geographic - A popped cob (top left) is among the ancient corn remains recently found in Peru. Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study says that people in what's now Peru were eating the snack 2000 years earlier than thought. |
 | Oman Daily Observer - Moscow - Russia is planning new exploration missions to the moon and Mars, despite the recent spectacular crash of a probe that was to have travelled to the Red Planet. |
 | Times LIVE - Children daily bombard their parents with questions on all manner of subjects, 10 of which are most feared by grown-ups, according to a survey. |
 | DAWN.com - Scientists are confirming that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last July. |
Technology
 | Written by  in 544 Google+ circles Los Angeles Times - MegaUpload, one of the world's largest file-sharing websites, was shut down Thursday by the US Department of Justice, which accused it of violating piracy and copyright laws. |
 | TechBlog (Weblineindia) (blog) - The United Kingdom's online mobile merchant, Clove is now shipping SIM free unlocked version of the Bold 9790 smartphone for 330 GBP. |
 | Star Canterbury - Product planners in Kia's giant Korean development facility must have been working overtime in recent years. Kia have just launched a series of new cars; those to arrive in New Zealand in the last 18 months have included Optima, Cerato, sedan and hatch ... |
 | Written by  SBWire (press release) - Range Rover hire brightens the New Year with the arrival of two new Evoques. It is an impossible choice between the coupe and the five-door, so why not try each one on hire? |
 | Fox Sports - by Staff Writers Back ... Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo will make his return from injury during testing at Sepang. Source: Odd Anderesen / AFP Former MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo is expected to ride in the season-opening test at Sepang, according to ... |
 | CNN - By Laurie Segall @CNNMoneyTech January 19, 2012: 6:30 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In one of the US government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns ever, federal agents on Thursday arrested the leaders of and shut down Megaupload. |
 | PCWorld (blog) - By Joseph Fieber, PCWorld Apple today revealed iBooks 2, which expands its bookmaking app and App Store to include textbooks. The effort will include tools built to make it easier to create digital textbooks and provide students with dynamic, ... |
 | USA TODAY - By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Capcom has confirmed a new console title from their flagship Resident Evil series will debut this November. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, reported second-quarter profit that beat estimates, lifted by holiday sales of Xbox machines and Kinect sensors, as well as corporate software demand. |
 | Forbes - A lot of tech writers are currently going a little bananas about something they thought they heard Google CEO Larry Page say on the company's year-end earnings call: that Google Plus, just six months after its launch, has 54 million daily users. |
 | InformationWeek - As Facebook broadens its Open Graph API by adding 60 new frictionless sharing apps, look for new action verbs in your feed. Here's what it all means. |
 | New York Times (blog) - By BRIAN X. CHEN | January 19, 2012, 6:11 pm AT&T, the wireless carrier, will raise the cost of Internet data for new smartphone customers beginning Sunday. |
 | PC Magazine - By Mark Hachman In its last quarter before being assimilated by Sony, Sony Ericsson reported a substantial net loss and declining revenues, although the company said its presence in the smartphone market improved. |
 | Huffington Post - Twitter has purchased news aggregation startup Summify. The announcement, posted on the Summify blog, was bittersweet for Summify, since the acquisition also marks the closing of the popular service. |
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