Science
Los Angeles Times - Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, BASE jumper and adrenaline junkie who hopes to set the record this summer for the highest skydive ever. |
The Moscow Times - Russian scientists have breached an ice sheet that has sealed subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica for more than 20 million years at a depth of nearly 4000 meters, reaching a critical stage in a decades-long drilling project, RIA-Novosti reported. |
DVICE - Fossils are capable of giving up incredible secrets - the color of a feather, the sheen of a wing and now the sound of a chirp. A chirp doesn't sound like much but considering it last sounded 165 million years ago, it's music to scientist's ears. |
Technology
IDG News Service - Good news for people who want a good deal on a super-thin laptop: Acer, Lenovo, and HP are reportedly dropping their Ultrabook prices by as much as 25 percent in preparation for the second-generation models that will soon launch with Intel's upcoming ... |
Written by  in 8,418 Google+ circles Mashable - Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's future tax rate is likely to be in Mitt Romney territory while more recent Facebook employees will be taxed around the rate of Warren Buffett's secretary. |
New Zealand Herald - iPhone 4S was the big seller last year, but Google's Android won't be playing second fiddle for long. Photo / Supplied An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google's ... |
Written by  in 8,065 Google+ circles Huffington Post - Mark Zuckerberg succeeded because of his ambition, vision, execution, persistence, luck and timing, a TechCrunch contributor wrote recently. |
NEWS.com.au - British thrill-seeker Colin Furze carves up the snow in these unlikely hot wheels - his suped-up mobility scooter holds the world speed record. |
Financial Post - By Barry Sookman While hysterical predictions about copyright reform in Canada have been ratcheted up yet again, this time the claims are so outrageous that they can perhaps best be described as having “jumped the shark. |
Written by  in 2,146 Google+ circles Search Engine Land - Google might be synonymous with the word search in most of the world, but that hasn't dissuaded others from bringing new search engines to the market, usually aiming to innovate in an area where Google has somehow let up its guard. |
New Yorker (blog) - Today would have been François Truffaut's eightieth birthday; he was born on Feb. 6, 1932, and he died at fifty-two-years-old, on Oct. 21, 1984, during a period of renewed vigor for the French New Wave (following the 1981 election of François ... |
Written by  in 573,317 Google+ circles Computerworld (blog) - By JR Raphael (@jr_raphael) Google's Chrome for Android browser is finally here -- and the app has plenty of features packed inside its virtual walls. |
Globe and Mail - Research In Motion Ltd. RIM-T 's new CEO offered more detail on the BlackBerry maker's international strategy, outlining how important Europe is for growth and promising more global events to increase the platform's traction with third-party software ... |
Reuters - * Code for pcAnywhere published * Symantec says customers safe * More releases expected By Joseph Menn and Frank Jack Daniel Feb 7 (Reuters) - A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears ... |
Herald Sun - High demand for applications for smartphones, tablets Created an estimated 466000 jobs in US since 2007 Honest opinion app: Does my bum look big in this? |
CNN - By Doug Gross, CNN The Apple TV system's sales so far have been disappointing, but a fully developed Apple television may be in the works. |
PC Magazine - By Leslie Horn Dating sites like eHarmony do a good job at depicting the perfect relationship; "real" people smiling at the cameras as Dr. |
CBS News - (AP) NOT GOOD ENOUGH: Oracle has turned down a court order requiring rival business software maker SAP to pay $272 million damages for stealing copyrighted information. |
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