Science
 | News24 - A seal swims in a tank at the Pieterburen seal crèche, north of the town of Groningen. (Peter Dejong, AP) Pieterburen - A month ago, a young seal named Marco washed up on a beach on the northern Dutch Frisian island of Ameland, one of a growing number ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - A pod of pilot whales stranded on New Zealand's South Island has been refloated and volunteers are waiting to see if they will head out into deep water. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - A burst of radiation on the sun's surface may trigger a geomagnetic storm on Earth Tuesday that could disrupt satellite communications and global positioning systems, scientists at the Space Weather Prediction Center said Monday. |
 | Toronto Star - To view this content, JavaScript must be enabled, and you need the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. Click here to get the free Macromedia Flash Player now! |
 | Washington Post - Timekeepers allow clocks to leap ahead The leap second lives on - for another three years, at least. Added to official world clocks on 24 occasions since 1972, this skip in time keeps clocks synchronized to the Earth's rotation. |
 | DigitalJournal.com - By Elizabeth Batt By Elizabeth Batt. Honolulu - A newly released study says man-made activities such as the burning of fossil fuels is raising ocean acidity at an 'unprecedented' rate, threatening corals and marine life. |
Technology
 | The Independent - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) looked like a prime takeover target last night after its co-chief executives abruptly quit because of poor sales. |
 | Mobile Sports Report - Nike has entered the fitness tracking and measurement space with a user wearable wristband that tracks a user's daily activity and uses a Nike-developed metric called NikeFuel to analyze your overall activity and oxygen burned. |
 | Washington Post - Kim Dotcom will remain in custody at least temporarily after a New Zealand judge delayed a decision on whether the founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload. |
 | Forbes - Ultrabooks were one of the most discussed form factors at this year's CES 2012. This was due not only to Intel's CES marketing push, but by all of Intel's ecosystem demonstrating their prowess by showing their latest and greatest designs. |
 | Written by  ZDNet (blog) - By Emil Protalinski | January 23, 2012, 3:31pm PST Summary: Israeli hacker Hannibal claimed to have stolen 185000 Facebook logins from Arab users. |
 | Written by  in 553 Google+ circles Los Angeles Times - When Google changed the rankings of its search results this month, items from its Google+ social network -- such as photos, videos, comments and links -- got a boost at the expense of other social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. |
 | Investor's Business Daily - Apple's (AAPL) iPad 2 and Amazon's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire fueled a surge of holiday sales of tablet PCs and e-readers, with almost a third of Americans now owning at least one of the devices, a survey by Pew Internet and American Life found. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Tom Loftus Since the high-profile bust Thursday of online-file storage site Megaupload, some websites that offer similar services and content have rushed through policy changes preventing users from certain acts that some say encourage digital ... |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By Alexei oreskovic San Francisco • YouTube, Google Inc.'s video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company. |
 | CNBC.com (blog) - On the eve of Apple's fiscal first quarter earnings release, to be delivered on Tuesday, one analyst is bullish on the tech titan's stock and anticipates further growth from its iPad and iPhone products. |
 | Slashdot - by v1 (525388) forces you to sell only via the Apple Store. So, Apple will make 30% on every text book sold which is written in their new tool, and likey 30% on every new, yearly addition which changes a picture here or there and yet charges full price ... |
 | BusinessWeek - By Kevin C. Tofel Nokia may have sold 1.3 million Lumia handsets running on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, which would be a morale boost for both companies. |
 | PCWorld - With so many apps to choose from, it's easy to download a stinker. Here's how to locate the best apps for your needs. By Megan Geuss, PCWorld Navigating the hundreds of thousands of mobile apps available for your iOS or Android phone can be daunting. |
 | BusinessWeek - Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- New York-traded shares of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. sank, swelling the discount versus Tel Aviv to the most in a month, as Intel Corp. |
 | Written by  in 9,498 Google+ circles Mashable - Anonymous is planning to target Facebook in an attack Jan. 28 - at least that's what a video uploaded to YouTube Monday is claiming in the name of the hacker network. |
 | USA TODAY - By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY One of the key elements that made the Toyota Prius such a hit wasn't just great gas mileage, but rather its eligibility for car-pool stickers in California, Virginia and other places. |
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