Science
Times of India - BEIJING: China today released a set of "world's highest resolution" lunar images taken by its second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, as it braces to launch its next mission to land a rover to explore its surface. |
Tecca - by Mariella Moon | Last updated 12:47PM EST on February 6, 2012 Researchers and even amateur astronomers have been discovering new exoplanets one after the other - not too surprising, considering planets outside our solar system are apparently more ... |
Economic Times - India has, arguably, a hoary tradition of con men. Be it a confidence trickster or a nifty sleight of hand at the street corner, many a cunning plan has been used to divest the unsuspecting chap of the contents of his wallet. |
Responding to Climate Change (press release) (blog) - By RTCC staff The International Court of Justice should take action against states unwilling to combat the causes of climate change, according to the President of the Pacific island of Palau. |
TG Daily - A team from Yale University has discovered a fungus deep in the South American rainforest that can live entirely on plastic - offering hope for new methods of waste disposal. |
Herald Sun - EXPERTS have raised questions over the scientific benefit and environmental impact of Russia's feat in drilling into a virgin lake under Antarctica's icesheet. |
Straits Times - WASHINGTON (AFP) - The call of a Jurassic-era cricket was simple, pure and capable of traveling long distances in the night, said scientists who reconstructed the creature's love song from a 165 million year old fossil. |
Sydney Morning Herald - From the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 36500 metres. After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 1520 metres, he will deploy a parachute and - hopefully - land safely. |
Technology
Written by  in 669,346 Google+ circles Wired News - By Steven Levy For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the “Letter to Shareholders” in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - The wait is over. Acer's most mobile and responsive notebook ever is finally here. And it's so much thinner, lighter, and faster. |
Sun.Star - By Katlene O. Cacho NOKIA Philippines is confident more local developers will create mobile applications for the Symbian operating system (OS). |
Wall Street Journal - By AL LEWIS I will not make the same mistake I made in 2004 when I panned the initial public stock offering of Google. "A bet on Google is a bet on a company that makes 95% of its revenues on Internet advertising," I wrote, before I came to work for ... |
El Paso Inc. - DETROIT - New-vehicle sales in the United States were unexpectedly strong in January, an early sign that the auto industry could have its best year since 2007, carmakers and analysts said Wednesday. |
Huffington Post - Earlier today (Feb. 6), a most extraordinary group of people sent a letter to Capitol Hill, in the latest round of the fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), telling Congress it was time to reject ... |
News24 - Rome - An Italian computer science professor whose research helped inspire Google launched a new search engine and social media network on Monday that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant. |
Reuters - By Arup Roychoudhury and Harichandan Arakali NEW DELHI/BANGALORE Feb 6 (Reuters) - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" ... |
Economic Times - Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. |
ITProPortal - The Samsung Galaxy S3, the right heir to the Galaxy S2, will apparently be a mere 7mm thick according to a report published by Korean news outlet ETNews. |
Written by  in 4,874 Google+ circles The Guardian - Apple took the lead in the smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2011 as the sector saw explosive growth of 54.7% year-on-year to 157.8m units, and now makes up around one of every three mobile phones shipped worldwide. |
Broadcasting & Cable - By George Winslow -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/6/2012 5:19:55 PM Super Bowl XLVI was not only the highest rated TV event in history, an analysis of social media activity surrounding the big game found that it was also the largest social media event for ... |
Washington Post - It looks like Chevrolet is borrowing a page from Kia's playbook to pitch cars this Super Bowl. After all, Kia had reasonable success using aliens to highlight its Optima sedan last year, so Chevy has enlisted the little-green-men-brigade to sell Volt ... |
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