Science
 | AFP - DAVOS, Switzerland - The world has no chance of sealing an emissions cut deal unless companies lobby their governments for an accord, the UN climate chief told the global business elite in Davos on Thursday. |
 | New Zealand Herald - An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. |
 | Voice of America - January 27, 2012 NASA Scientists Discover More than Two Dozen New Exoplanets Jessica Berman | Washington Twenty-six new exoplanets have been discovered by NASA scientists seeking to locate planets outside our solar system. |
 | Yahoo! News Blogs (blog) - By Claudine Zap By Claudine Zap | The Upshot - 6 mins ago Two teens from Toronto successfully launched a Lego figure into near space -- and launched a storm of interest on the Web. |
 | Wired News (blog) - By Adam Mann The sun is waking up. After several quiet years, it bombarded the Earth with two consecutive solar storms this week, which generated many nights of spectacular auroras seen from backyards around the Northern Hemisphere. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Russia plans to delay the next mission carrying astronauts to the International Space Station by several weeks, due to problems with the Soyuz spaceship's re-entry vehicle. |
 | Forbes - The Wall Street Journal's editorial board has long been understood to be not only antagonistic to the facts of climate science, but hostile. |
 | Washington Post - What happened to “climate change” and “global warming”? The Earth is still getting hotter, but those terms have nearly disappeared from political vocabulary. |
 | RedOrbit - According to a new study, membranes based on the material graphene can be used to distill alcohol. The researchers wrote in the journal Science that they created the membrane from graphene oxide, which is a chemical derivative of graphene. |
 | BBC News - By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Researchers have "cloaked" a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. |
 | Global Toronto - A comparison of NASA's Blue Marble photo from 1972 and the newest image in the series release in 2012. TORONTO - NASA has released their 2012 edition of the “Blue Marble” image and it has gone viral on the internet impressing viewers with its sharpness ... |
Technology
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - AP, This screen shot shows a portion of the Twitter blog post of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in which the company announced it has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. |
 | News - What Car? - The BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo (5 GT) is an unusual mix of SUV and premium hatchback that has so far failed to sell in big numbers. |
 | msnbc.com - Shhhh: It's Data Privacy Day, but it's no secret that Google and Facebook are facing criticism over their often-disputed privacy policies. |
 | New York Times - The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. |
 | Edmonton Journal - Toyota scored a victory in 2011 as US deliveries of its Prius wagon in 10 weeks topped sales of GM's Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid that was available all year. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - It's Seabiscuit vs War Admiral, Secretariat vs. Sham. Apple and Samsung have turned the smartphone war into a two-horse race. In the fourth quarter the two handset giants were neck and neck in terms of smartphone sales. |
 | InformationWeek - Every Windows Phone 7 device Nokia shipped in Q4 cost Microsoft $250, minus a royalty. But Microsoft is burning this cash with good reason. |
 | Yahoo!7 News - VILNIUS (AFP) - Lithuania's central bank said Friday it had been hit by a cyber-attack, but had eventually overcome the assault on its website and other online services. |
 | Montreal Gazette - Apple defended its ethical standards yesterday (Friday) after a newspaper reported that factories in China rely on child labour, 24-hour days and unsafe conditions to make iPhones, iPads and computers. |
 | CNET (blog) - During an investor assembly this week Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced the Nintendo Network, marking the first time the company has attempted to streamline its online gaming effort in a way that promises a consistent and reliable experience ... |
 | Bloomberg - US lawmakers asked the Federal Trade Commission whether changes announced this week by Google Inc. (GOOG) to its privacy policy violate terms of a 20-year settlement the company reached with the agency last year. |
 | Motley Fool - By Evan Niu (TMFNewCow) | More Articles You know that feeling you get when you're at work, and you're just half an hour away from calling it a day, and all you can do it stare at the time, running out the clock until the day is done? |
 | E-Commerce Times - By Rob Spiegel Facebook made another move in its offensive against spam, filing a lawsuit against a company that allegedly ran a "likejacking" operation. |
 | Written by  in 800 Google+ circles ZDNet (blog) - By Ed Burnette | January 27, 2012, 3:09pm PST Summary: A year ago, the Apple iPad dominated the tablet market with a nearly 40 point lead over Android. |
 | U.S. News & World Report - By Jason Koebler The agency recently decided to explore developing a web application that would monitor user updates on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, along with news reports from Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. |
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