Science
homeinsurance.com (blog) - When Hurricane Irene caused significant damage up and down the East Coast last summer, scientists classified it as a 100-year flood event, meaning it could be expected to happen roughly once a century. |
Sacramento Bee - By Jack Z. Smith Hydraulic fracturing of shale formations to extract natural gas has no direct connection to groundwater contamination, according to a study by the Energy Institute of the University of Texas at Austin. |
CBC.ca - The Great Eruption of Eta Carinae was studied using reflected light that bounced off the dust in the area marked by the square in the lower right. |
Ottawa Citizen - By Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen February 17, 2012 1:35 PM The International Space Station (ISS) on March 24, 2008 as seen from the US space shuttle Endeavour. |
Los Angeles Times - By Deborah Netburn Engineers from the Swiss Space Center at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne announced this week that they soon will begin work on CleanSpace One, a prototype for a line of brand-new satellites whose sole mission will be to ... |
Christian Science Monitor - Astronomers have found black holes and supermassive black holes. But the discovery of a mid-size black hole could support the idea that supermassive black holes grow by eating others. |
Technology
San Francisco Chronicle - Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. will release an upgrade to its Mac operating system later this year, making its laptops and desktops more like iPhones and iPads just as Microsoft Corp. |
Salt Lake Tribune - By JOE McDONALD AP Beijing • Chinese officials face a choice in Apple's dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark - side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that has created hundreds of thousands ... |
CNET - by Jonathan E. Skillings February 17, 2012 1:31 PM PST Follow @jeskillings week in review Following Path flap, Apple resets guidelines on how iOS apps collect user data. |
Computerworld - By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Were you a bit surprised this week to find that your Twitter page has a new look? If so, you've got a lot of company. |
Bangkok Post - Right, and there won't be a saloon variation like in the preceding model. In fact, the RS4's bloodline started with an Avant estate body (see sidebar) and stood out nearly exclusively in its class where only Mercedes-Benz is offering a rival in the ... |
UN News Centre - ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré attends final day of World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12). Photo: ITU A United Nations forum focused on ensuring universal access to radio services worldwide concluded in Geneva today with one senior UN ... |
Written by  in 1,065 Google+ circles Telegraph.co.uk - Although Google Android phones offer free satnav capabilities in Google Maps, Matt Warman says Copilot offer additional options that are worth paying for. |
Yahoo! Philippines News - Facebook on Thursday began testing a way for celebrities, journalists, athletes and others with massive followings to have their identities validated at the globally popular online social network. |
RollingStone.com (blog) - Sexy is not the only thing that Justin Timberlake is bringing back. This week, MySpace announced that in the past month, they have encouraged 1 million new users to jump aboard the once-struggling social network. |
CNN - By Stacy Cowley @CNNMoneyTech February 17, 2012: 6:09 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In the latest high-profile flap over online data privacy, Google has been caught bypassing the privacy settings on Apple's Safari Web browser, letting advertisers track ... |
PCWorld (blog) - By Jeff Bertolucci, PCWorld Feb 17, 2012 3:30 PM It's official: Rovio's Angry Birds franchise will soon soar to the heavens for yet another round of revenge role-play. |
Los Angeles Times - By Nathan Olivarez-Giles Apple has won a German lawsuit against Motorola Mobility over claims "slide-to-unlock" patents that the iPhone-maker owns were illegally infringed upon. |
Written by  in 868 Google+ circles Wall Street Journal - By STEVE EDER, AMY SCHATZ and ANTON TROIANOVSKI The hedge-fund manager who poured billions of dollars into a plan by LightSquared Inc. to build a new national wireless network found out Tuesday that federal regulators had moved to block it, ... |
Forbes - It seems that cheaper tablets are indeed finding buyers. It all started with Amazon.com selling the Kindle Fire for a modest $199. |
Written by  in 9,810 Google+ circles msnbc.com - News and reviews about the hardware you want and the software you need. For an up-to-date playlist of Gadgetbox videos and a full complement of the day's gadget news, go here. |
Reuters India - By Sharon Begley (Reuters) - The DNA-sequencing race heated up Friday as privately-held Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd said it developed two new devices that could quickly surpass existing gene decoders and rivals set for release later this year. |
The Guardian - PS Vita's promise for the game player is straightforward: a PlayStation 3 in your pocket. That means a ridiculously beautiful and high-resolution screen, two tiny analogue joysticks, and the rest of the buttons found on your now-obsolete PSP. |
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