Science
 | Newsday - World Newsday > News > World Solar storm expected to fire up northern lights Published: January 24, 2012 4:49 PM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM - Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing ... |
 | Sky News Australia - Final attempt to save stranded NZ whales Updated: 08:59, Wednesday January 25, 2012 A final attempt will be made on Wednesday to refloat the 35 surviving pilot whales from a pod that has repeatedly stranded on Farewell Spit, near the top of New ... |
 | Kansas City infoZine - In 2011, NOAA satellites were critical in the rescues of 207 people from life-threatening situations throughout the United States and its surrounding waters. |
 | Washington Post - WASHINGTON - The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection. |
 | 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 ... |
 | ABC News (blog) - While not your average nursery, a newly discovered nesting area reveals that some early dinosaurs were more attentive parents than previously known. |
 | msnbc.com - A magnet plunged into test tubes filled with soap under an organic solution. The soap on the right is magnetic. You can see how it is attracted to the magnet. |
 | Washington Post - “Global warming” and “climate change” succinctly describe a complicated phenomenon, and in just a few decades they have become common descriptors. |
 | Register - By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Lasers heat things up, right? - unless you happen to hit upon the right resonance, in which case it seems you can use lasers to cool things down. |
Technology
 | Toronto Star - Emily Jackson Staff Reporter If RIM's share price over the past 24 hours is any indication, its attempt to woo investors with a new CEO didn't go quite according to plan. |
 | Wall St. Cheat Sheet - By Gina Smith As orders pour in for Toyota Motor Corp's (NYSE:TM) Aqua compact hybrid, the Japanese automaker ups its 2012 manufacturing target for the car 30 percent to 320000 units from its earlier goal of 240000 units, the Nikkei reported, ... |
 | Written by  in 560 Google+ circles Los Angeles Times - Anonymous has lobbed many online attacks against high-profile websites, but so far the hacktivist group has never hacked into the world's largest social network, Facebook. |
| Kansas City infoZine - In 2011, NOAA satellites were critical in the rescues of 207 people from life-threatening situations throughout the United States and its surrounding waters. |
 | Examiner.com - Anonymous hacktivists continue to make the news as they rampage across the Internet. On Tuesday, AntiSec, a hacktivist collective associated with Anonymous, claimed responsibility for hacking into and taking down a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ... |
 | TVNZ - An email allegedly sent by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom jokingly invited his Auckland neighbours to take advantage of his criminal connections and even invited them to come round for coffee and cocaine. |
 | Inquirer.net - The 1 Series is BMW's second-best-selling model in the Philippines after the 3 Series. Red linings on the steering wheel and dash (above) distinguishes the 118d Sport. |
 | Atlanta Journal Constitution - By PETER SVENSSON AP NEW YORK - Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - NEW YORK (AP) - After uncharacteristically tepid sales in the July-to-September quarter, Apple came back with a vengeance in last three months of 2011, vastly exceeding analyst estimates and setting new records. |
 | Written by  in 998 Google+ circles Washington Post - Engineers from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have created an open-source plug-in that they hope proves their worst fears about Google's decision to fold its social results into search - that Google is moving away from its mission to be a neutral ... |
 | Stuff.co.nz - Apple again lost a bid on Tuesday to have Samsung tablet computers banned in the Netherlands in a Dutch appeals case over infringing copyrights of its iPad tablet computer. |
 | Written by  Huffington Post - On Tuesday, Facebook announced in an updated blog post that its radically revamped profile design, called "Timeline," will become the mandatory format for all users "over the next few weeks. |
 | In-Game - By Rosa Golijan Good ol' 2011 is almost over and that means we've got some "end of the year" lists coming our way. |
 | Wall Street Journal - By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Co. Chief Executive Dan Akerson is preparing to go on the offensive against Congressional critics of GM's battery-powered Chevrolet Volt, according to people familiar with the company's plans. |
 | Bloomberg - Enlarge image Nokia Lumia Sales Seen Topping 1 Million Nokia Lumia Sales Seen Topping 1 Million David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. |
 | CRN - By Antone Gonsalves, CRN Twitter has bought a small security company that specializes in protecting online ad networks against malicious ads embedded by cybercriminals. |
 | PCWorld (blog) - By Jared Newman, PCWorld Jan 24, 2012 10:20 AM The US government's shutdown of MegaUpload might have seemed like bad news for online file sharing, but it could be a boon for other file sharing sites -- at least those that aren't afraid to keep ... |
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