Science
U.S. News & World Report - By Brian William Greene Add another planet to the list of candidates for a new home for our species if anything goes horribly wrong. |
Written by  in 1,580 Google+ circles CNET (blog) - by Martin LaMonica February 3, 2012 9:12 AM PST Follow @mlamonica NASA this week released high-quality images from the dark side of the moon. |
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Los Angeles Times - REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- Where will this city dump the tons upon tons of garbage produced every day by millions of people? Nearly two months after it officially closed one of the largest trash dumps in the world, Mexico City's government and ... |
AFP - WARSAW - Hardy fans of swimming in the frozen lakes of northern Poland have decided to call off a mass outing this weekend due to the vicious cold snap gripping the country, organisers said Friday. |
Medical Daily - By Christine Hsu Researchers recently discovered “supergiant” deep sea crustaceans that were more than 20 times larger than their crustacean relatives in an ocean trench off the northeast coast of New Zealand. |
msnbc.com - A still from a broadcast report on the English-language Iranian Press TV is said to show the launch of the Navid observation satellite into orbit early Friday. |
Calcutta Telegraph - New Delhi, Feb. 3: Europe's climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard said today that countries should begin discussing a peak year for global emissions of greenhouse gases, but asserted that India and other developing countries could continue ... |
The Japan Times - Moscow - The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in late May that was supposed to take Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide into space will be delayed by about two months, RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. |
Mirror.co.uk - by Mike Swain, Daily Mirror 4/02/2012 Excited alien hunters had hoped a Mars probe would provide proof of life on the Red Planet. But scientists may have to rename it the Dead Planet after finding there has been no life on the surface for at least 600 ... |
Sky News - A camera on board one of Nasa's lunar spacecraft has captured video of the far side of the Moon. The video scans the barren, dusty face - the oldest part of the Moon - all the way from the north to the south pole. |
Huffington Post - I am going to piggyback on the WSJ debacle, namely the op-ed signed by 16 scientists stating there was "no need to panic over global warming", and the response letter signed by climate scientists, which states that the op-ed was the "climate-science ... |
Telegraph.co.uk - A zoologist in central Kazakhstan has confirmed what many people already suspected. Red wine is good for you. By James Kilner, Almaty It's so good for you, in fact, that Svetlana Pilyuk, the chief animal specialist at Karaganda zoo in central ... |
Daily Mail - By James Delingpole Just imagine a world where you never had to worry about global warming, where the ice caps, the 'drowning' Maldives and the polar bears were all doing just fine. |
AFP - BRUSSELS - The EU on Thursday signed contracts with German and French engineering firms to build and launch another eight satellites for its Galileo geopositioning system. |
Technology
Globe and Mail - If there's one constant in the chaotic technology industry, it's that nobody stays on top for long. When News Corp. purchased MySpace in the summer of 2005 for $580-million (US), it was one of the most popular social networks anywhere. |
BetaNews - By Nick Peers As always, the rapid release cycle -- a new version of Firefox ships every six weeks -- means that changes aren't as radical as you might expect considering the regular version number jumps. |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Robert Frank “We expect that substantially all of the net proceeds Mr. Zuckerberg will receive upon such sale will be used to satisfy taxes that he will incur upon his exercise of an outstanding stock option to purchase 120000000 shares of our Class ... |
Christian Science Monitor - Proposed EU laws on Internet privacy will target a critical money-maker for Internet companies such as Facebook: their wealth of personal data on users. |
The Daily Yomiuri - Sony Corp.'s heavy reliance on its sluggish TV business has left deep scars on the company, leaving its new management with the difficult task of comprehensively rebuilding the group's business structure. |
Business Insider - Facebook's ad revenue may not be growing fast enough to justify a $100 billion valuation. But ads are not the company's only source of revenue. |
CPJ Press Freedom Online - By Danny O'Brien/CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Last week, Twitter provoked a fierce debate online when it announced a new capability--and related policy--to hide tweets on a country-specific basis. |
Written by in 1,580 Google+ circles CNET (blog) - by Martin LaMonica February 3, 2012 9:12 AM PST Follow @mlamonica NASA this week released high-quality images from the dark side of the moon. |
Written by  in 801 Google+ circles PCWorld (blog) - By Jared Newman, PCWorld Feb 3, 2012 10:24 AM Jay Z and Kanye West--Image: Courtesy of Theo Wargo, Wire ImageExplicit lyrics might not bother you, but at the moment, they're a problem for Apple's iTunes Match service. |
InfoWorld - By Cameron Scott | IDG News Service A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the US has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday. |
Written by  ZDNet (blog) - By Emil Protalinski | February 2, 2012, 10:40pm PST Summary: Facebook is absolutely dominating in the US Here are some new (and not so new) statistics about the social network that might make you realize just how popular the website really is. |
New Zealand Herald - Casey Stoner is coming to grips with the new 1000cc MotoGP bikes, despite a niggling back injury. Photo / AP World champion Casey Stoner has broken the Sepang circuit MotoGP lap record, albeit unofficially, as he once again set the pace on the final ... |
Consumer Electronics Net - By Dominic Milano for Digital Innovation Gazette Mobile devices have been transforming the world of computing. Smartphones, tablets, e-readers and netbooks have revolutionized the way people communicate and interact with each other, buy things, ... |
Yahoo! Philippines News - As Sony prepares to launch the PlayStation Vita in Europe mid-February, Nintendo is rolling out 5000 more free wifi hotspots for its competing 3DS. |
Salt Lake Tribune - A small experimental plane piloted by the CEO and chairman of Micron Technology Inc. crashed after take-off Friday at the Boise airport, killing the head of the Idaho memory chipmaker who was responsible for building one of Utah's most important ... |
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