Science
Straits Times - Lights at Marina Bay were switched off or dimmed for an hour on March 26 last year in support of the Earth Hour movement. This year's event will take place on March 31. |
God Discussion - The New York Times reports today that a scientist says that Stonehenge might not have been a place of spiritual worship and ritual. |
BBC News - Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn celebrated the 50th anniversary of his Earth orbit by chatting with the crew on the International Space Station. |
GMA News - VANCOUVER - Measured by environmental impact, a humble shrimp cocktail could be the most costly part of a typical restaurant meal, scientists said Friday. |
Washington Post - MOSCOW - It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30000 years. |
Economic Times - Scientists have taken a first early step toward escaping the limits of a technological principle called Moore's Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. |
BBC News - A rapid thaw has brought chaos to the River Danube in the Serbian capital Belgrade, where ice damaged boats, pontoons and floating restaurants. |
Gather.com - A moon rock fragment, worth as much as $5 million, is buried under tons of trash at a town dump in Dublin, Ireland. Maybe. But the news, decades old now, may spur treasure hunters into looking for the proverbial pot of gold at the end of a trashy... |
Yahoo! News Canada (blog) - By Steve Mertl By Steve Mertl | Daily Brew - 13 hours ago The Arctic songbird weighs less than an ounce and is not much longer than a pen, but the northern wheatear is astounding researchers who've discovered it makes an annual migration halfway around ... |
Technology
Technology Spectator - One of the more interesting numbers reported by Apple CEO Tim Cook during the last earnings conference call this month was the total payment to developers during the fourth quarter. |
Hindustan Times - Tablets have liberated many of us gizmo lovers. Mobility has been there but lugging around a laptop, charging it, and then making sure we were connected were hassles that we did not really want, but had in our lives. |
Unwired View - By Vlad Bobleanta on 20 Feb 12 The cheapest contract that gets you the phone for free costs £36 per month and brings you 2000 minutes and unlimited calls to T-Mobile numbers, unlimited texts and unlimited data. |
Haute Living - by Alison Cavatore The world's largest showroom for BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and BMW Motorcycles has opened its expansive doors in Abu Dhabi. |
TG Daily - More than a few so-called ethical (or White Hat) hackers have discovered a vulnerability in a website or computer network, only to end up with a new job or hefty bounty. |
University Daily Kansan - By Marshall Schmidt Tablets are the latest, hottest tech item for students, and many are eagerly awaiting Apple's iPad 3 announcement in March. |
Yahoo! Philippines News (blog) - By Eric Pfeiffer By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow - Thu, Feb 16, 2012 "Boeing's 19 hour test flight of the 787 Dreamliner was a great opportunity to test the limits of the 787, FlightAware's flight tracking, and the FAA's flight plan system," ... |
Reuters - By Gerry Shih | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Under pressure from US legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek "explicit approval" in separate user ... |
TweakTown (blog) - BGR have gotten their dirty mits on "what is said to be" Apple's iOS 5.1 GM, which should hit users over-the-air (OTA) around March 9th or so, and BGR have thus confirmed two changes that have been baked into iOS 5.1. |
Wall Street Journal - Amazon.com Inc.'s (AMZN) Kindle Fire and other low-priced tablets cut into Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) media-tablet market share in the fourth quarter, but Apple's newly introduced iPhone 4S was the strongest competitor for the iPad, according to market ... |
CNET (blog) - by Daniel Terdiman February 20, 2012 9:00 AM PST Follow @GreeterDan Dozens of apps tie in seamlessly, but on the audio front, music has led the way. |
Straits Times - NEW YORK (AP) - Sony is intensifying its push in handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at hardcore players looking for something with a bit more punch than 'Angry Birds,' 'Words With Friends' and other smartphone pastimes. |
CNN - By Kathrin Hille and Richard Waters, FT.com (Financial Times) -- Apple levelled a new legal threat on Monday against the struggling electronics company that has claimed it owns the iPad name in China, as a court in southern China ordered a large ... |
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