Science
 | RTE.ie - Researchers studying a potentially deadlier, airborne version of the bird flu virus have voluntarily suspended their studies for 60 days amid concerns it could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism, according to a letter published in the ... |
 | National Geographic - A Miller's grizzled langur pauses while drinking water from a mineral spring, or sepan, in 2011. Feared extinct, the monkey species has been "rediscovered" on the Indonesian island of Borneo, a new study says. |
 | TruthDive - Washington, Jan 20 (ANI): A team of scientists has developed breakthrough technology that extracts all the major sugars in seaweed and converts them into renewable fuels and chemicals, thus making it a cost-effective and renewable source of biomass. |
 | Fox News - A powerful flare erupted from the sun Thursday, Jan. 19, unleashing a plasma wave that may supercharge the northern lights for skywatchers in high latitudes this weekend. |
 | GenevaLunch (blog) - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - One of the most pressing questions in Geneva in the past week, to read world media, has been that of the death sentence or its commute for the leap second, which has been used since 1972. |
 | Irish Times - GENEVA - The leap second survives - for at least three more years. Delegates at an international telecommunications meeting in Geneva were to decide on Thursday whether to recommend the elimination of leap seconds, which are occasionally added to the ... |
 | Hispanically Speaking News - Though Samantha Garvey and her family were homeless just days ago, her intelligence and fight for a brighter future has brought the Garvey family more than could have imagined. |
 | TruthDive - Washington, Jan 20 (ANI): A “sun grazing” comet, which was caught by SOHO's LASCO C2 camera as it dived toward the sun on July 5 and July 6, 2011, has amazed even the most seasoned comet watchers. |
 | Daily Mail - By Anthony Bond Scientists have discovered that birds intuitively know how fast to fly through heavily built up areas - and hope to use this research to improve unmanned robots. |
Technology
 | Washington Post - There were no chants of “Strike! Strike! Strike!” to be heard, no picket lines to cross. There was not even an inflatable giant rat - the motif of any good protest. |
 | TVNZ - Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Bram Van der Kolk, and Kim Dotcom at the North Shore District Court. - Source: ONE News A police raid on an Auckland mansion at the centre of an FBI-led bust on the world's largest file-sharing site put a stop to the ... |
 | Evening Standard (blog) - SONY, LG and Samsung have sparked a battle for the future of television with radical new screen technology that has led to giant ultralight giant TVs that are just 4mm thick. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Nothing too controversial there, right? Wrong. By Thursday afternoon, tech bloggers began to complain about a clause in iBook Author's End User Licence Agreement that restricts how resulting ebooks can be sold, and by Friday the torrent of anger ... |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Nokia has announced the availability of the Nokia Asha 200 - a colorful dual-SIM phone with a full QWERTY keypad for fast messaging - in the Philippines. |
 | BBC Sport - Moto GP world champion Casey Stoner has said for the good of the competition he wants to see Ducati and Valentino Rossi mount a serious challenge this year. |
 | Sacramento Bee - By BARRY SPYKER When is the last time we saw a Land Rover, or any SUV for that matter, with head-turning looks and spunky performance - on the road and off? |
 | Forbes - Microsoft pleased investors Thursday evening with its earnings report for the company's second quarter of fiscal 2012. [1] It reported its best quarter yet, with quarterly revenue of $20.89 billion, growing around 5% year-over-year. |
 | Forbes - In Germany, Mannheim Regional Court judge Andreas Voss has ruled against Samsung and in favor of Apple in a patent infringement complaint. |
 | BBC News - The games developer announced they are currently working on the new instalment of the popular zombie series. An official trailer for the game was released on Thursday (19 January), and hinted that parts of it will be set in China. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Mathew Ingram Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, Jan. 19, when it bought a Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and ... |
 | Wired News - By Kyle Stack Ask anyone about the activities they perform each a day and they'll rattle off a litany of actions. Running for the train. |
 | Irish Examiner - By Neil Callanan FACEBOOK may take over Bank of Ireland's former headquarters in Dublin as it looks to double the size of its European base. |
 | Gizmodo Australia - If it doesn't have “8″ or “Phone” after it, nobody thinks or cares about Windows anymore. But let's not forget that Microsoft is still selling a gargantuan tower of operating systems every second - and it matches everything else combined. |
 | NEWS.com.au - GLOBAL radio experts have approved radio standards that are to usher in a new mobile phone operating system to replace third generation or 3G technology, the International Telecommunication Union says. |
 | TIME - By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | January 20, 2012 | + Apple's iPhone 4S and iPad 2 proved particularly difficult to jailbreak, but the hackers have finally prevailed. |
 | InformationWeek - Research In Motion is offering all three variants of its PlayBook tablet at this cut-rate price through February 4. But this device has drawbacks. |
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