Science
 | Written by  Universe Today - by Ray Sanders on January 31, 2012 This week, NASA has launched its first multi-player online game on Facebook to test players' knowledge of the space program, as well as an interactive air traffic control mobile game for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. |
 | Slate Magazine (blog) - By Slate V Staff MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - A Zenit-2SB rocket, which carried the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft , stands at a launch pad of the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on November 9, 2011. |
 | History - Between the early 14th and late 19th centuries, a period of cooling known as the Little Ice Age chilled the planet. Europe bore the brunt of its ill effects, experiencing harsh and fickle weather for several centuries and especially from 1560 to 1660. |
 | Huffington Post (blog) - Here it is only the end of January and I am breaking my New Year's resolution to ignore the Wall Street Journal. The paper's coverage of climate science in its editorial pages has been appalling for quite some time, but the straw that broke the camel's ... |
 | ZME Science - Around 140 millions years ago, mammals didn't even outsize a modern day mouse, as dinosaurs dominated Earth's crowded surface. |
 | Vancouver Sun - A 30000-year-old bison bone plucked from the thawed permafrost inside a Yukon gold mine has helped a team of Australian scientists make a potentially groundbreaking discovery about the way animals adapt to climate change. |
 | ABC Online (blog) - The humble Lego man has taken over YouTube this week after school students from a Canadian high school launched him into space via a 1000 cubic feet helium balloon. |
Technology
 | The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - The Department of Energy (DOE) will retrofit the lighting systems of at least 35 government buildings to save on energy for about P20 million a year. |
 | PCWorld - By John E Dunn, techworld.com Major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have announced a new specification to streamline the way e-mail providers work out whether messages are part of phishing attacks using spoofed domain ... |
 | PCWorld - By Brad Reed, NetworkWorld In a wide-ranging letter addressed to eight US representatives, Google defended the changes it plans to implement in its privacy policies and said that users who want their data kept separate from multiple Google services ... |
 | Written by  WebProNews - The deals services of today are essentially glorified email marketing. Groupon gets credit for turning the concept in to a huge mainstream trend, and deals are certainly accessible in other ways, but all in all, it's still email marketing. |
 | ZDNet UK (blog) - By Jake Rayson , 30 January, 2012 11:43 Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical has announced Ubuntu's new Heads Up Display, catchily titled The Intenterface. |
 | AFP - OTTAWA - A Canadian court has ruled Bell Helicopter infringed on fellow helicopter-maker Eurocopter's landing gear design patent, the companies announced Tuesday. |
 | New York Times - By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED 6:02 pm | Updated Facebook plans to file the prospectus for its initial public offering on Wednesday, according to people briefed on the matter, finally kicking off one of the most anticipated stock sales of the social ... |
 | PC Magazine - By Angela Moscaritolo Consumer electronics manufacturer Foxconn is looking to double the size of its workforce in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou and scores of hopefuls are clamoring for a job, despite rampant reports of unsafe working conditions at the ... |
 | Written by  San Jose Mercury News - By Jeremy C. Owens Customers visit the Apple Store in New York City's Grand Central Station January 25, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Today: Apple (AAPL) sets more company stock records and increases its lead in battle for title of country's most ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And DEVLIN BARRETT Legitimate users of Megaupload Ltd., the online storage site accused of piracy by US officials, might get some help in efforts to retrieve their files from the closed service. |
 | Globe and Mail - As slumping Research In Motion Ltd. RIM-T shakes up its leadership, its signature BlackBerry has been losing some of its most loyal supporters: pinstriped lawyers on Bay Street. |
 | Written by  ZDNet (blog) - By Emil Protalinski | January 31, 2012, 12:32pm PST Summary: Back in July 2004, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg thought he was going to sell his company so that he could focus on Wirehog, a friend-to-friend file sharing program. |
 | Stuff.co.nz - SHOWING CHARACTERS: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says while some Tweets will be censored in some countries, they will be still be viewable to the rest of the world. |
 | Complex.com (blog) - By Reggie Ugwu | Jan 31, 2012 | 5:52 pm | Permalink In what could be construed as a sign of the times, research firm Canalys reports that Apple became the leading shipper of computers in the world last year, passing HP for the first time ever. |
 | Motorsport.com - Jorge Lorenzo ended day one of the first MotoGP test of the year on top of the timing sheets after setting the only sub 2m 2s lap at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia and the 2010 World Champion showed no signs of discomfort on his bike following an ... |
 | EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) - DALLAS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the US 1 , is launching a revolutionary super phone, the Galaxy Note™, in the first-ever Super Bowl ad in the technology ... |
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